Word: downrightness
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...allies were on board. Big Labor and senior citizens were natural supporters: both had been granted huge concessions early in the spring. Nurses and hospitals, also beneficiaries of reform, could be courted and perhaps won. Some of the big insurers were playing along; others were coy; small firms were downright hostile. Small business was opposed, probably forever. But Magaziner wanted to sign up the politically powerful American Medical Association or, short of that, keep it neutral...
Telemarketing is hot, effective and downright irritating...
Telemarketing is hot, effective and downright irritating...
...question of the moment is whether Letterman's offbeat, sometimes abrasive style will work at 11:30, where the mainstream audience is more accustomed to the enthusiasm that Carson (and now Leno) brought to the job of helping celebrities promote their new movies. Industry prognosticators are cautious, if not downright skeptical. Leno, inheritor of the powerful Tonight franchise, is generally regarded as the front runner, if only because Letterman's show will have a weaker station lineup: more than 30% of CBS affiliates will be delaying his program by half an hour or more to make room for syndicated fare...
...case of Lani Guinier is slightly different. Her writings, far from being overly vivid, were downright obtuse. But in them she presented some novel ideas for minority representation in a democracy. When Clinton killed her nomination for head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, Guinier warned against "a new intellectual orthodoxy, in which thoughtful people can no longer debate provocative ideas without denying the country their talents as public servants...