Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain that the dispute is going to have a serious impact on U.S. foreign policy, on the Administration, and on the political future of Jimmy Carter. Nothing the President manages to work out short of outright capitulation by the Soviets is likely to mollify the hard-nosed critics of the Soviets who are demanding a firm stand. At immediate risk is the fate of the SALT II treaty; if the Senate turns it down, the defeat could seriously damage Washington-Moscow relations. Carter's handling of this sensitive matter, moreover, will be viewed as yet another severe test...
...summit was back on the track. With some difficulty, a SALT understanding was concluded that limited defensive weapons like the ABM and put an outright freeze on deployment of new offensive missiles. The agreement quickly came under attack in the U.S. as too generous to the Soviets, who at the time enjoyed an advantage in certain categories of strategic missiles...
...Administer a $250,000 fund to aid residents unable to afford heating oil with loans or outright grants...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW's preliminary findings, released earlier this year, hit Cambridge like a ton of red tape: HEW auditors questioned the way Harvard accounted for 40% of $37 million in federal grants and contracts to the School of Public Health. It sought an outright refund of an additional 7%, totaling $2.35 million. Most of the problems involved inadequate documentation of "salaries and wages." The refund demands, however, were based on HEW findings that grant money went to consultants' fees, overhead costs and fringe benefits, not provided for in Government regulations...
...system cannot be repaired if the judges themselves are incompetent or corrupt. "The problems caused by unfit federal judges, whether from outright corruption, political favoritism or inability due to ill health or senility, amount to a hidden national scandal," testified Clark Mollenhoff, a Pulitzer-prizewinning former Des Moines Register reporter, at a congressional hearing on methods of disciplining judges. (Mollenhoff has been investigating the federal bench for three years.) The only way to remove federal judges now is by impeachment, a cumbersome process. Only four of the nation's federal judges have been tried and convicted by Congress...