Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not seem to matter to The Crimson, if Shahak's statements are lies, half-truths, and outright slander. When Shahak says that the discrimination against Arabs in the Jewish State closes all branches of the government to them, how does he explain the presence of Arab members in Israeli Labour Party and in that party's Central Committee, as well as in the Israeli Parliament? On the other hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament...
...Please wait. Will come with the number." Minutes later: "Frankfurt, here is Oscar X Ray. Three terrorists killed, one badly wounded." Mahmud and two others had been killed outright; the fourth, a woman, suffered a thigh wound and was taken to a Mogadishu hospital. One commando, one stewardess and four passengers were slightly injured. Except for the murdered Captain Schumann, all the hostages survived...
Though the manifesto did not say so outright, it was clear that its authors considered the Polish Communist Party to be the usurper and the Soviet Union the robber. Demanding the restoration of "sovereignty and democracy," the manifesto called for "freedom of belief, thought, speech, information, assembly and work." It insisted specifically on the right to strike, on free trade unions, abolition of censorship and complete reform of the electoral system...
Such freedoms have often been demanded by dissident Polish intellectuals in statements and open letters. But the Glos manifesto went much further in expressing outright resistance to the authority of the Communist Party itself. It differed in an even more significant way from the human rights appeals that have proliferated in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the past decade. Those appeals criticized Communist regimes for not putting existing laws into practice. The Polish declaration took issue with the laws themselves...
...doctors were black, and this percentage remains unchanged. Similarly, blacks still make up only 3.4% of the nation's lawyers and only 1% of its engineers. And now that most organizations finally accept at least the idea of affirmative action, the limited gains have strengthened demands for outright quotas for the benefit of minorities. That is far more controversial, particularly among Jews, who remember the all too recent days of quotas that excluded them from graduate schools and top jobs...