Word: downrightness
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Political campaigns are wretched forums for debating economic policy. Passionate partisan oratory invariably oversimplifies, when it does not downright distort, what by their nature are formidably complex issues. And that is the case, in spades, for the mid-term election campaign now plodding toward its conclusion at the polls next Tuesday...
...whip at all, that Mr. Multiflex flows from start to finish, that Big Red stumbles out of the blocks and never really recovers, still dragging that foreleg. And that it isn't raining. 'Cause if Big Red comes out steppin' high with nostrils flarin, and the weather is downright early, Mr. Multiflex may be sucking wind before they're too far into the backstretch. And you may be tearing up your tickets and flipping the stubs at the teller in the $2 window...
...GSLS), which must be explained over and over throughout the year, there is the constant uncertainly over how much of each of Harvard's overlapping and interlocking programs will survive each week of conflicting predictions. "We talk about it in staff meetings, says Malin, "but it's difficult, actually downright Quixotic, for even the most devoted followers to keep up with what's happening...
...from collapse--far from it. A Bendix-Marietta pairing apparently wouldn't have made for "stronger competition" or yielded "substantial economic efficiencies," as the skeptical Times observed. If anything, last month's corporate jockeying and the diverting effect it had on the stock market and the companies involved was downright inefficient...
...much like an extended version of NBC's Today or ABC's Good Morning America: sober and almost impersonal in the hourly news summaries, folksy in such soft segments as Arden Zinn's exercise class and Dr. Steve Kritsick's advice on pet care, downright gossipy in the late-night hour of Hollywood chitchat by longtime