Certain facts what we might call explicit knowledge clearly matter.

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Top House Republicans have said they were aware months ago of e-mail contact between Foley and a teenage male page, but that they had no knowledge of sexually explicit messages that have subsequently come to light.

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It is about creating a Knowledge Environment that makes it natural for employees to create and share knowledge whether tacit or explicit.

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The historic status of private equity and hedge funds as (largely) unregulated arrangements is based on the explicit assumption that their participants have adequate knowledge and negotiating leverage to protect their interests.

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