Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priorities seem implicit in the autobiography that Carter wrote as he set out on his presidential quest. Yet despite his credentials-boyhood in and manhood return to South Georgia, a couple of terms in the state legislature, the governorship-how much of a Southern stamp does Carter really have? After all, he left Georgia at 18 for the U.S. Naval Academy, was exposed there to everything from ballroom dancing to naval strategy, followed that with windows on the non-Southern world in such places as Oahu, Hong Kong and Schenectady...
Reagan's aides insist that the strategy will pay off before the convention. Campaign Manager Sears argued that the plan all along was to spend the first week after the Schweiker announcement just explaining the odd coupling. In an implicit admission that the Reagan cause only days earlier had seemed lost, he claimed: "People are saying, 'Now we really can't tell who's going to win.' " Sears seemed to be hearing voices inaudible to almost everyone else...
...there were in fact guilty men who must answer for the larger mystery the Mullens faced. Implicit in Friendly Fire is the understanding that Vietnam was more than a tragic mistake, an error in the limited sense that the shell which exploded in the trees above Hill 76 and killed Michael Mullen was an error. It defies logic to believe that the long years of blood and napalm were merely a tragic series of mistakes dizzily succeeding each other. Men, powerful, arrogant and lying men, plucked Michael Mullen out of graduate school and put him on Hill 76. The piece...
...helped prevent another war. It has also increased American influence throughout the region and, for better or worse, brought Soviet influence to its lowest point in two decades. These achievements have made the U.S. the only nation generally accepted by all sides as the potential Middle East peacemaker. Implicit in Secretary of State Kissinger's commitment to the Middle East is the assumption that massive material and diplomatic support is justified by the expectation that peace can be achieved within a comparatively short time...
Harvard's dishonest waiver policy compounds the offense. The Admissions Office routinely sends applicants a form permitting them to cede the right to view their admissions file once they reach Harvard. Despite the implicit pressure on them, only half the applicants waive their rights. Yet all students are then denied access to their admission files...