Word: implicit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrest of Jennifer Casolo is Cristiani's trump card. It is an attempt to prove to Bush that even those North Americans who peacefully or silently protest the right-wing government are implicit and explicit supporters of the guerrillas. Cristiani's message applies not only to religious and humanitarian workers in El Salvador, but to all of us here who would like to see the end of U.S. financing of the decade-long civil...
...attractive idea lurks at the center of this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd...
Although the group's main purpose, officerssay, is to nurture ties between graduates and theUniversity, it does play an implicit, but subtle,role in fundraising...
Documents released this Saturday by the National Security Archive show that the FBI began to check librarians to discover "whether a Soviet active-measures campaign had been initiated to discredit the Library Awareness Program." Implicit in this request is the FBI's belief that any criticism of its programs is downright un-American...
Allow the universities' point that a bidding war would ensue if they did not set awards. If competition forced the big schools to work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...