Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's foremost backers of terrorism and insurrection. Pursuing a dream of a Libyan-led Islamic sphere of influence, he has fomented a coup against the regime of Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, expropriated land from neighboring Chad, and edged relations with Egypt perilously close to outright war. Despite these foreign excesses, he remains securely in power at home. Last week TIME Correspondent David Beckwith visited Libya during the twelve-day session of the country's fourth General People's Congress. His report...
...actions indicate that Burns, like Carter, is worried by the persistence of the lull in the business recovery and strengthen hopes that the two can avoid an outright clash over economic policy. Speculation that they might be on a collision course arose shortly after the election, when Burns warned Congress that stimulation of the economy risked speeding up inflation. But Burns was careful not to come out flatly against the tax cut that many of Carter's economic advisers want. Lately he has been passing the word that he might eventually back a cut if the economy continues...
...only 74% of capacity). Rather, the inflationary spiral keeps spinning because everyone expects it to. As Okun wryly puts it, "Wages and prices are going up because they have been going up." So some type of Government action is needed to break the momentum, and Carter is opposed to outright controls. Though he once talked of asking Congress for power to impose controls, he now says he would do so only in an emergency-"and I don't anticipate any calamities...
...torrid stock market of the 1960s produced dozens of "hot issues"-young companies whose stocks soared on dazzling dreams of instant wealth. Many collapsed just as quickly, falling victim to mismanagement, unrealistically high expectations or, in some cases, outright fraud. Some survive only as names in the memory of angry investors. Stirling Homex (modular housing) no longer exists; King Resources is still in bankruptcy proceedings; and Bernie Cornfeld's Investors Overseas Services is in the terminal stages of liquidation...
...suggestions of Brunnhilde's dilemma here, and certainly Lohengrin's. These similarities would not much matter if the music had independent life. Instead, the score is a shameless pastiche, something that Erich Korngold, the peerless artificer of movie music, would have deeply appreciated. Wagner (including an outright steal of Tristan's theme for Roland), Meyerbeer, Offenbach, all emerge from the pit. The vocal music is lifted mostly from Berlioz, who wrote wonderfully sensuous love duets. The pity is that in Manon, Massenet created an ineffable erotic style...