Word: downrightness
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...Cross-examination is a savage business, and Beck came out with teeth bared. Sneering, sardonic, and sometimes downright vicious, Bush's new star went after Brace on the rubber blends used in South Florida ("I don't know"), the name of the machine that tests rubber softness ("I don't know") how many chads make a pile ("I don't know"), and every other technical fine point with which he could stump Brace for Sauls' amusement. "Your opinion as a political science major is that rubber gets harder?" Beck scoffed, the scarcasm dripping. Brace had come in looking like...
...Crimson could be proud of its effort in the Florida game, then junior center Lindsay Ryba deserved to be downright haughty after turning in a 21-point effort, connecting on 5-of-6 from behind...
...There's been a general sense that Bush has been "out-lawyered." The implication is that out-lawyering is downright un-American. Issues shouldn't be decided by the craftiest lawyers but on their merits. Hip hip hooray. But I've found that people who lose cases on their merits often complain that they've been "out-lawyered." I'm growing a little weary of the Bush campaign's constant cry that Gore's lawyers changed the rules in the middle of the game. Fine, but if the rules are wrong or don't reflect the will of the voter...
...Sounds sort of reasonable. Perhaps, but not to Republicans who find the idea of sampling threatening and intolerable and downright unconstitutional. They claim that the constitution means counting every person in the flesh, not some fancy statistical model put together by statisticians and sociologists to imagine people who may not actually exist. And who, if they did really exist, would probably punch a hole for Al Gore...
...Losing weight and then putting it back on is not only frustrating, it may be downright unhealthy. Data on nearly 500 weight-conscious women suggest that yo-yo dieting can drive down blood levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, a major risk factor for heart disease. Who qualifies as a yo-yo dieter? Anyone who's lost at least 10 lbs. three or more times...