Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However, Stokes cautioned that there was "still cause for concern." Of the alleged snipers, three are dead and two in jail. Ahmed Evans was charged with first-degree murder, along with lesser offenses, such as the possession of narcotics and an automatic rifle. If the snipers hoped to cause outright insurrection in Cleveland, they did not succeed. If they wanted merely to create local turmoil and national apprehension, they succeeded all too well...
...Kill. The bill had already been cut $600 million, to $2.3 billion, in committee. Opponents threatened to kill the bill outright. Finally, House leaders of both parties agreed that the bill would have to be reduced to below $2 billion in order to survive. When the final vote eased the authorization on to the Senate, the Administration's military-aid request had been cut by only $30 million (from $420 million), but nonmilitary sections were ravaged, shrinking $958 million from an original $2.5 billion request...
...profits of $213 million, 46% above the same period last year. That brought first-half earnings to $386 million, more than double what the company was clearing in a full year as recently as 1963. Part of the strong surge comes from the fact that the company has increased outright sales (as opposed to leasing) of its computers. Chairman Thomas J. Watson, in a monumental piece of understatement, said "our long-term prospects continue to be very good...
...innovation that might go a long way to ease community relations?as well as to disprove many charges of outright brutality?is a civilian board, a kind of ombudsman to review citizen complaints. But police everywhere look upon the notion with undisguised horror as an unwarranted invasion from the outside. "Today," says San Francisco's Chief Tom Cahill, "you cannot even look mean. That may be police brutality...
...most of its food, fuel and raw materials through its air, rail, autobahn and canal lifelines with West Germany, 110 miles away. And to keep their $10 billion-a-year economy afloat under such circumstances, West Berliners have been forced to rely increasingly on powerful infusions of capital and outright subsidies from the West German government...