Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams he played on were great in those days. In his junior year, the gridders drove the length of the field in the closing seconds to shock Yale and tie for the Ivy title. In his senior year, they beat the Elis at the Yale Bowl to win it outright. On track, he threw the discus, the shot, the hammer and the 35-lb. weight. The field contingent of the track team, in the Jiggetts days, was simply devastating. You just couldn't beat...
...largest defense suppliers, including General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Litton Industries and Textron's Bell Helicopter division, was shock enough. But even as businessmen wondered if additional deals were about to collapse, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger brought up an even gloomier subject: the increasing chances for an outright oil shortage. He warned of the looming squeeze in some of the scariest terms yet used by any Administration official. He told a Senate committee that the six-week-old Iranian oil shutoff could turn out to be "prospectively more serious" than the five-month Arab oil embargo...
...hour miniseries, Roots 11 covers a huge amount of ground. Ha ley's family members witness the rise of the Jim Crow South and the Ku Klux Klan, both World Wars, the race riots of the Wilson era and the hard times of the Depression. They endure the outright segregation of the Old South and the de facto segregation of the modern North. They contend with racist military officers, hypocritical white liberals, and Uncle Tom blacks. They wrestle with the political and sociological imperatives of such thinkers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and Malcolm X. Yet intimate matters...
...almost remember seeing him 1975 at the Yale Bowl when Mike Lynch kicked the field goal to win the championship outright...
...profit squeeze becomes too severe, the Federal Reserve could decide to put a cap on MMC rates, but an outright ban seems unlikely. Rates are bound to come down eventually. More important, scrapping the MMCs would simply send depositors right out the S and Ls' doors again...