The broad contours are similar: a powerful white political figure, an illicit sexual relationship with a black woman of vastly subordinate status, offspring who are, at best, tacitly acknowledged.
Below, another excerpt from the uncorrected proof: Instead of challenging the fantasies of techno-utopia, a New Era and a Greenspan guarantee against stock market losses, the chairman, at best, tacitly endorsed them or, at worst, aided and abetted them.
Writing in his regular column for the Washington Post today, Richard Cohen sought to frighten me and every other Jew in America into believing that Barack Obama at worst supports, and at best tacitly approves of, the vile ideology and racialist libels that Louis Farrakhan has variously promulgated over the course of a long and serpentine career.
It was the shock of the night in Cardiff last month when the BBC Folk award for best group (tacitly referred to as "Bellowhead's Gong") went to the Young'uns, a Teesside trio whose calling card is the unaccompanied voice.
It soon became clear that the citizens were coming from nearby towns to kick out the convoy of Mexican Army trucks—in their eyes, the Army was a corrupt institution that had, at best, been tacitly allowing the Templars to do their dirty work and, at worst, been working directly with them.
In terms of the message, the CoP used both explicit knowledge (such as research findings and best-practice guidelines) and tacit knowledge in their webinars.
The trouble is that tacit knowledge functions best within national boundaries, where workers share a language and cultural and institutional norms and can draw on strong interpersonal networks.
I expect that, as part of a tacit understanding, the best students were not encouraged to apply to the other Ivy League colleges, since most of them seemed, every year, to end up going to that one.
Obversely, price-fixing hinders coordination; attempts to gather knowledge centrally do not permit the best use of localized and tacit knowledge; and no system provides as much feedback and incentives for the correction of errors in perception as does a market system.
That is true of hard engineering technology as well as the tacit knowledge of how best to organise production, support markets and manage aggregate demand.
