Word: downrightness
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Perils of Exodus. Like other Soviet citizens, Jews are forbidden to emigrate freely. Even applying for an exit visa is regarded as gross ingratitude, if not downright disloyalty, to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, some 40,000 Jews during the past three years have dared to risk official wrath by filing applications to leave for Israel. Only a bare trickle of about 2,000 a year have been allowed to leave. Almost all of those who have applied for visas have lost their jobs and been subjected to intimidation and insults by police and neighbors...
...third level, jeans are reasonably priced-if not downright cheap. Lees, for example, makes a velvet-corduroy version for $11 that comes in a dozen colors, is available either straight-legged or bell-bottomed, and is slow to sit out or bag at the knees. There is another advantage. Jeans were originally cut only for men and, inexplicably-despite mass sales to women-still are. Thus there is a choice in length of leg along with waist size, making alterations virtually unnecessary...
...Justice Department prosecuted both Chevron Oil Co. for spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Power & Light Co. for dumping hot water into Biscayne Bay. Detroit reeled after the Clean Air Act mandated pollution-free cars by 1975 ?an order that automakers called technically impossible and downright absurd...
...weighs in at close to three pounds, and looks about as pretty as a catcher's mask. Nonetheless, the most popular-if not downright explosive-accessory that is circling around these days is the bullet belt...
...determined is Israel to nail down assurances of U.S. support before entering peace negotiations with the Arabs that Washington often grows downright uneasy. As Premier Golda Meir told a Labor Party rally in Tel Aviv last week, U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour recently said to her: "Look here, Mrs. Meir, we've established that Israel is not a satellite of the U.S. Now I think we ought to make it clear that the U.S. is not a satellite of Israel." With a smile, Golda told the party members: "I had no choice but to agree...