Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor has written agency-shop clauses into contracts covering an estimated 1,000,000 workers. But in 19 of the right-to-work states, the agency shop is now doomed. Among them, only heavily industrialized Indiana specifically permits it, and labor's only recourse in the others is outright repeal of the right-to-work laws. And while labor has managed to repeal such laws in Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine and New Hampshire since 1947, Indiana is the only state where it now has even a remote chance of success...
Added the report: Negroes able to afford better homes are prevented form buying them by dealers' methods ranging from outright refusal to deal with Negroes to endless delays of a Negro's housing request. Most brokers, however, simply fabricate non-discriminatory objections to otherwise qualified Negro applicants, or refuse to tell them about the full range of available housing...
...other federal programs with high price tags. In North Carolina, the Greensboro Daily News counseled Congress and the nation not to be stampeded into precipitate action. "Few Americans (and, we imagine, still fewer Congressmen) will feel that even the late President's martyrdom imposes on them the outright duty of acclaiming or voting for what a few days ago they denounced and worked against...
...case involving outright fraud, which is not so far involved in the Haupt case, the Exchange in 1960 reimbursed $797000 to customers of Boston's DuPont-Homsey...
Played with fire and ice by Kirk Douglas and Joan Tetzel, Cuckoo's Nest is implausible, if scarifying, viewed as realism. Wasserman intends the insane asylum as a metaphor for the world. But instead of cracking sick jokes, he ought to have tried for outright theater-of-the-absurd. The play gains in tension what it loses in triteness by linking Nurse Ratched's oppression of the patients to her sexual repression of herself...