Word: downrightness
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Spurring such growth is apt to be difficult at a time when the U.S., the World Bank's principal shareholder, is fighting a record budget deficit. Moreover, Conable's activist view is a departure from the laissez-faire climate of Ronald Reagan's Administration. It might have been considered downright heretical until last October, when Treasury Secretary James Baker announced a new official line at a World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Seoul, South Korea...
There is no gloom at Kleinfeld's, however, or anywhere else in the wedding industry. Everyone, in fact, seems downright delirious--from the usual near- frantic nuptial logistics and from unconcealed fiscal rapture. In 1985, according to Bride's magazine, which takes proprietary pride in such things, the industry raked in $10.9 billion (including money spent on gifts and other wedding bounty), up 43% in the past decade. Manhattan's swank Pierre Hotel has seen a 20% increase in its wedding business over the past five years. Many couples are opting for "weekend weddings": multi-event affairs that stretch...
...Andy Williams is the hottest Western vocalist in China. Or maybe it's because Williams crooned the sound track to Dancing on Ice, a 15-min. skating documentary that has been shown again and again and then several times more on Chinese TV. Ever since, people have been downright bullish in China's shops about his Love Story and other ancient chestnuts. It is not just ideogrammatic titles like Moon River that strike familiar chords in Chinese hearts. "His voice and style more closely resemble a Chinese vocalist's than any other foreigner's," explains a young Peking resident. Before...
...earshot, he swung into Catfish Blues, a song so lowdown nasty he said "I ain't gon' give you too much." Most of the verses were difficult to understand -- there was something about "belly to belly" and "skin to skin" in the middle there -- but it did sound downright filthy nonetheless. It gave you the feeling you had been caught peeking in a girlie magazine at the local apothecary...
Quiet and unobtrusive off the court, Jernigan is an incredibly intense competitor whose court presence becomes downright fearsome when he dons his no-fog goggles. More than a few Princeton fans literally gasped in amazement when a particularly psyched-up Jernigan took the court during February's Harvard-Princeton match...