To thwart the 33-year-old nonproliferation treaty, Iran cleverly exploited the implicit bargain at the treaty's heart.

His charity reflects both the implicit bargain in his method and a genuine admiration for his subject.

More important, lobbying efforts like Microsoft's violate an implicit social bargain that major corporations have with America.

What particularly disappointed Arab diplomats today is that they thought they had struck an implicit bargain with the Bush Administration.

Chatterbox thinks Clinton believes the implicit bargain was this: Since the voters didn't care about Flowers, they'll let him get away with it again.

That's the problem with those "implicit" bargains.

Maybe the Shadowmasters decided to make Mogaba pay for his failure to fulfill his end of the implicit bargain.

FOR the last decade, the chief executives of America's large corporations have offered their investors an implicit bargain.

But part of the implicit bargain is that he pay close attention to conservative Communist opinion.

To reprise what sophisticated women know is not to fulfill the implicit bargain.