Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disguise. The tension in the room evaporated in a collective gasp of relief. The legislators had expected Kennedy to ask Congress to settle the dispute by outright compulsory arbitration -a prospect that frightened the politicians, wary of offending organized labor. "This is just right," whispered New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. "A ten-strike," murmured Oregon...
...group found few outright abuses of the stock market's rules, but its recommendations struck deeply at five major areas (see box on next page) that make up the very heart of the market, promised the most sweeping overhaul of Wall Street since the Pecora investigation set up the SEC 30 years ago. The SEC recommended that trading in stock issues that are "unlisted" on any exchange be automated and perhaps made cheaper for the investor, and that the cost of trading in "odd lots" of fewer than 100 shares be lowered. It asked for closer regulation...
...Rahman flew to London, sat in his hotel suite waiting for the signing ceremony. When a last obstacle appeared, Sandys persuaded Lee to iron it out privately with the Tunku. The final agreement compromised on financial issues. Singapore will loan money to the Borneo territories rather than give it outright, and a federation common market will gradually replace Singapore's freeport status...
...wife, Chicago-born Janet Rosenberg, a onetime Young Communist Leaguer and the colony's most controversial woman, to be Minister of Home Affairs, making her, in effect, British Guiana's top cop. Neither Janet nor her police have been able to quiet things. All that prevents outright racist civil war is the presence of 500 British troops that Jagan called upon to protect his tottering regime...
...critical dearth of living space and clear its squalid legacy of slums, Labor promises to commit more public funds to new housing and redevelopment, restore rent controls, and regulate new construction. Labor also aims to break the age-old power of wealthy landowners, who seldom sell property outright but give developers long-term leases on which the landlords continue to collect "ground rent." New legislation would give all leaseholders the right to buy actual "freehold" ownership of their land...