Word: downrightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With or without the new Massachusetts legislation the exploding concern with legal action against computer mischief-makers or downright thieves has caught law-enforcement agencies flat-footed. "I don't think we really have a handle on the problem. We're spending a 1st of time right now getting our agents trained so that they can understand the way the system operates," says Greenleaf. Indeed, he adds, "there's no federal statute as it stands now that allows the FBI to get involved in computer crime . . . Generally speaking, we go in through trespassing or fraud-by-wire statutes...
...findings: not only were the first Sandanista elections not a "sham," as per the Reagan Administration, but they were downright upright...
...panel of journalists to pose the questions, which they usually answer with rehearsed minispeeches that may have little relation to what was asked. The discussion of issues gets squashed into two-minute spiels and one-minute rebuttals that are wildly oversimplified at best and all too often downright misleading. In past campaigns, charges New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, "nothing . . . has spread more misinformation, more false claims and more just outright mischaracterizations of things than those debates have...
When Mondale threw Reagan's "There you go again" line back in his face, it was nothing less than a victory over the network of euphemisms, symbols, and downright lies that has served as the Reagan Presidency. Sweet revenge indeed...
...wholesome all-American looks. The chemistry has been sizzling. Just two years short of its 100th birthday, the once staid and conservative Sears is showing the friskiness of a teen-ager who has won a date with Tiegs. In fact, some people would say that Sears has become downright sassy...