Word: implicitly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a good sense of current race relations at the College. It does not engage issues such as the racial hostility or prejudice that many students of color feel, or the tension that has resulted from the University's affirmative action policies. For example, many black students often feel implicit and explicit pressure to prove that they really belong here. The handbook is also silent on matters such as the sometimes troubled relationship between minority students and the Harvard police and the fact that minority students are often perceived as potential criminals...
...decisions, Lewis chose to ignore the ethical issues raised by undergraduates. The question of who is to control PBH relates to the conflicts of interest which will surely arise with administrative control of volunteered student labor. And the absence of police on the streets of Cambridge speaks to the implicit gender imbalance that has resulted from the rise in crime, given that female students are its principal victims...
...women have exhibited a reluctance to attend these degrading events. Although it is unfortunate, Harvard women do seem willing to play on these unfair, male-biased terms. And yet, they are still thrown into a heterogeneous solution of women from various schools. "We do not want you" is the implicit message. The social appeal enjoyed by Harvard men does not extend to Harvard's women. A Harvard woman is not, shall we say, a guy magnet...
...permanence inherent in the law highlights its implicit social critique: our penal system has disintegrated to such a point that it serves no purpose except to keep the criminals off the street. A person walking out of jail is no better than he or she was before entering. Whereas jail was once seen as a place for penitence and growth, where people who went wrong could change themselves and improve, we now associate jail with an overly expensive and dangerous cage. In jail little of value occurs; instead, increased rage is generated. Those who emerge from the prison doors...
What's interesting here are not the specifics of the plan, which could presumably garner votes for Dole, but the fact, implicit in the disclosure, that polling data is used for political ends. The message that Morris really sent to Dole was that Dole should sidestep his personal convictions and even reasoned opinions by conforming to public wishes in order to gain votes...