Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relax & Enjoy It. Short of the outright sleeping pills, which doctors call hypnotics, there are many drugs that help to bring on sleep, but these also affect different people in different ways. Ironically, some of the best-known pep pills put some people to sleep. Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics. Virtually all the tranquilizers tend to make falling asleep easier, but their mechanisms vary...
...past there has been some debate about what form any tax relief should take. Dodd proposed an outright exemption of $1200, but Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) has been favoring a tax credit, which permits the parent to deduct a specified amount from his, tax bill. It is argued that credit will be of more assistance to persons of low income than the exemption...
...Nicaragua, although it has an elected President, is run by the U.S.-inclined Somoza family, which owns outright a great part of the nation...
Fearing that they might permanently alienate Young loyalists, the Glenn men never pushed for an outright endorsement for their candidate. Instead, Richard Christiansen, Democratic minority whip in the Ohio House, rose on the convention floor to challenge a committee report calling for endorsement of a single candidate. "When we have two great Americans seeking election as Senator, we should not endorse one to the exclusion of the other," he cried. In a roll call taken amid tumultuous shouting, the convention voted 343 to 328 against endorsing any candidate. That amounted to a victory for Glenn, and his backers swiftly moved...
...week from Friday the House of Representatives' Municipal Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on a bill to repeal the underpass measure. Its sponsor, Mary B. Newman (D-Cambridge) is not optimistic about the chances for outright repeal. But she said last night that the advocates of the construction might now be satisfied with overpasses at River St. and Western Ave., since no one realized at the time of its passage that the Memorial Drive bill would become such a cause celebre...