They have openly addressed the problem of male underachievement.
His routines openly addressed subjects like interracial sex and black male fear, often in strong, uncompromising language.
Instead, he worshipped the Velvet Underground and the Stooges for the way their music openly addressed life's ugliest aspects.
Unless the issue of hate crime is properly raised and openly addressed, justice won't be seen to have been done, especially for the victims.
The menu of an American restaurant I once visited openly addressed the issue by explaining the American tipping culture in detail in several languages.
While homosexuals in Pakistan already use dating Web sites and other forms of Internet communication, the Queer Pakistan site apparently distinguished itself by being a rare forum that openly addressed homosexual issues in Pakistan.
But while we were disadvantaged by the lack of role models and the social norms that forbade women from interrupting, I never experienced the indignities — hazing or being openly addressed in crude terms — that is apparently occurring at Harvard today.
In an administration that is still struggling to put its national security team in place, not everyone supports such a radical shift, and the secretaries of state and defense have not openly addressed the issue.
Then there is Dr. G., a male therapist with a "sober, clear-eyed gaze," in whose office she experiences "the twin novelties of sitting upright and being openly addressed.
This statistical technique has its critics, and it raises questions about why the decline occurs and whether earlier data can be relied on, but these questions have been openly addressed by scientists for years.
In my perhaps over-nostalgic memory, feminism reached an unprecedented peak, environmentalist concerns gained widespread attention, questions of race were more openly addressed: all of these stirrings contained within them the same electricity and euphoria touching generations that witness a centennial or millennial changeover.
