Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shinoda, 39, was fired outright as Ford's director of special-projects design. In dismissing him, says Shinoda, Styling Chief Gene Bordinat explained: "Things just didn't work...
Notable Exception. Though the story aroused skepticism among experts, none were willing to dismiss it outright. But Japanese experts said they had perceived no signs of trouble. And at week's end, the New China News Agency published a brief story that mentioned both Mao and Lin as "personally" approving posthumous honors for ten Chinese soldiers who fell in clashes with the Soviets...
Among the representatives from 125* nations who launched the General Assembly's 24th session, a similar mixture of muted hope and outright despair seemed to prevail. Few expected the 13-week session to produce much progress in settling the world's major conflicts in Viet Nam and the Middle East. Still, there was always the possibility that some crises could be eased at private diplomatic meetings in the town houses and apartments of New York. At one such meeting, held in U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's 38th-floor office suite at week's end, representatives...
...trippers intense hallucinations. Waves of color and vibrations sweep through the head; reality dissolves. Imagining that they are birds, some users have plunged to death or serious injury while attempting to fly. Known medically as hallucinogenics or psychotogenics, these drugs are still subject to intense research. They seldom kill outright, and do not create the symptoms of physical dependency. Although earlier researchers found that they can be linked to permanent breaks in animal and human chromosomes, more recent studies have been unable to replicate these findings, and the long-term effects on genes are still unknown. Yet even in apparently...
...last year and jumped at an offer to become president of Ford. But Bunkie Knudsen's take-charge attitude brought no happiness to other Ford executives. Last week, in one of the auto industry's most bizarre episodes, Knudsen and Ford disclosed that he had been fired outright...