Word: implicitly
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...ascetic Crown Prince (later King) Faisal summoned his younger half-brother Fahd and told him he was disgracing himself and the kingdom. It was time, said Faisal, for Fahd to come home and devote himself to serious matters of state. Implicit in the rebuke was a warning that Fahd was endangering his chances of succeeding to the crown. As one of seven sons borne by the favorite wife of the legendary Abdul Aziz (generally known as Ibn Saud), who created Saudi Arabia, Fahd was among those in line someday to be King. But there was, and is, nothing automatic about...
Banking Committee chairman Henry Gonzalez and others have recommended that the FDIC curb its implicit commitment to make every depositor whole. But any such cutback in coverage of all deposits must be done carefully. The dominant fear -- some observers say obsession -- at the FDIC and the Federal Reserve is that large depositors might become so concerned about their money that at the first sign of trouble at an institution they would take it elsewhere, effectively breaking the bank. Analysts like Shaw have proposed that the FDIC restore its "modified payout" system, under which uninsured depositors get a prorated share...
...brave movie star who knowingly subverts the values implicit in his own image. It is a brave director who will guide him through a performance that satirizes the grand manner of one of recent movie history's most revered auteurs and, in the end, devastates the great man's macho posturings. Obviously, Clint Eastwood, who both plays John Wilson -- read that as John Huston -- and directs White Hunter, Black Heart, has more gumption than, say, Dirty Harry Callahan. After all, the short-fused San Francisco cop only had to face down outrageous criminals. Having committed this iconoclastic vision of Huston...
...Klein, it wasn't so much the sherry, but the implicit dress code...
...unfortunate consequence of modern medicine's ability to keep people alive in a state of semideath. In a cautious and carefully hedged decision, the Rehnquist majority declared for the first time that there is indeed a right to die. Rehnquist pointedly explained that this right derives not from any implicit constitutional guarantee of privacy (which conservatives insist is not actually in the Constitution) but rather from the 14th Amendment's due-process clause. "The principle that a competent person has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment may be inferred from our prior decisions," Rehnquist said...