Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Students," Nervi claimed, "must be divorced from the too-widespread tendency, if not outright and persistent mental habit, which leads them to consider a drawing as an architectural fact...
...many businessmen fear that the law is a prelude to outright confiscation, have been hiding their hoarded cash instead of investing it in badly needed production facilities. Some businessmen have no cash to hide. Moaned one Istanbul factory owner who was whiplashed by the alternating inflationary and deflationary policies of the Menderes regime: "In the U.S., you can build up a business and live on it for three generations. Here, in one generation I've run through three businesses." The government has kept the currency stabilized, is gamely trying to slash imports and boost exports to reduce the chronic...
Inventor Knox, 35, a designer of medical instruments, owns the Orbiteer outright through the Knox Instrument Co., of which he is president. Orders for the Orbiteer have already run over...
...debt to the U.S. Government for $425,000 cash. He gets 75% of his income outside the U.S. market and netted $3,000,000 for 1952's Limelight, not counting U.S. royalties. Royalties roll in steadily from his old films, most of which he owns outright. Like many foreign stars living in Switzerland, he pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives in a country twice as thrifty as Scotland, he is celebrated locally...
...forces in South Vietnam seem to be trying everything short of outright fighting to stem the growing strength of the guerilla revolt. But plush relocation camps to concentrate the peasants and helicopter supply lifts cannot sustain unpopular President Diem's rule without direct U.S. military support. Even such military action, however, would be likely to succeed only in the distant future. If U.S. policy continues, as guerilla fighting spreads and more American troops pour into Vietnam, the U.S. will doubtless be involved, in a shooting capacity, with a long and messy jungle...