Nothing is ever obvious unless you made it obvious by spelling it out.
However, unless a phrase appears repeatedly in written text, an acronym is usually more confusing to a reader than spelling it out.
With garden variety stocks like Exxon, you get a 1099 statement from your broker spelling out your dividends.
The furor was unsurprising: no work of mainstream English-language fiction had come so close to spelling out homosexual desire.
In May, 18 years after COBRA's enactment, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued final rules spelling it all out.
Even more desperate now that the Food and Drug Administration is expected, as early as this year, to require food makers to add artery-choking trans fat--found in dairy, meats, cookies and fried foods--to labels spelling out nutrition facts.
The Pentagon has warned automatic cuts of 10% would be "devastating", without spelling out what would happen.
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Yet David Cameron has still to fix a date let alone finalise the text of a long promised speech spelling out his European policy.
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The GOP convention, like the Romney campaign itself, seemed to have an explicit strategy of defining itself in opposition without spelling out an alternative vision.
Democrats are furious because Republicans still haven't presented legislative language spelling out their plan in detail.
She contends that the old Madison Avenue days of a brand being defined by its logo and a tag line spelling out its promise are over.
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Professor Levi knows Virgil so well he hardly bothers spelling out the stages of his life.
Another form of illicit signalling used by pupils has been the clicking of pens, spelling out a pre-arranged message.
Many of them, mostly female, are spelling out their reasons in painful detail.
The two presidential candidates are spelling out those economic choices this week.
U.S. military planners spent the next 50 years revising and refining the requirements of deterrence, spelling out in great detail the performance characteristics required of U.S. nuclear forces to assure they were both survivable and credible.
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In describing his US, he is also spelling out what he thinks it should be.
When most executives think about leadership succession, they envision a methodical, pain-staking process, a steady flow of meetings, memos, drafts, and eventually hard documents spelling out the essential elements of executive transition.
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It would have meant spelling out every name and concept at great length.
They argue for replacing centralised control over the police with contracts spelling out what people can expect of local coppers.
Only if Iraq failed to comply would the Security Council debate a second, spelling out the consequences of Iraq's breach.
Authorities have begun spelling out what they say happened to DeJesus next.
Millions of parents will be getting a letter within the next month from HM Revenue and Customs spelling out how their child benefit could be cut.
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Yet spelling out these principles clearly met a widespread need.
The plan is essentially a new budget for the city of about 291, 000, spelling out day-to-day operations under bankruptcy.
Earlier in the day, US Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered an opening address spelling out the US' determination to defeat global terrorism.
With this in mind, the Lib Dems plan to use their Conference to start spelling out how they would use those law making powers.
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Steve Forbes has done a commendable job spelling out why America's tax system must be simplified.
Applicants between the ages of 18 and 35 are invited to submit written responses and a 60-second video describing their career passions and spelling out what resources they would need to achieve their goals.
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