Word: outright
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...export income dropped, the countries would be able to borrow compensatory funds from a proposed new $10 billion "development security facility" of the International Monetary Fund. This would enable these countries to proceed on schedule with their development plans. For the poorest countries, the loans might be turned into outright grants, financed by the sale of some of the IMF'S gold...
GREATER FINANCIAL AID. The Third World wants not only an outright redistribution of the wealth; it wants it faster than ever. The industrialized nations should increase their lagging aid donations, pledge a higher proportion of their G.N.P.s to development assistance, and transfer more of their technology and more of their productive facilities to the underdeveloped nations. Hard-pressed Third World countries should have their foreign debt obligations eased and in certain cases even canceled...
...offered Israel what amounts to an unofficial security pact, one that all but mandates American intervention in case fighting should break out again. Says one high Israeli official: "This is a defense agreement between the U.S. and Israel-even if the text doesn't say that outright...
Minority students are also treated a little differently, though they don't get the same kind of outright preference that an alumnus' child receives. There are no quotas or target figures, though officials keep a close count on the number of minority students in the class...
...embassy; 2) allowed an embassy communications officer from Nairobi to accompany the students' parents to a rendezvous with the terrorists near Kigoma, Tanzania; and 3) allowed the ransom money to be shipped from London to Dar es Salaam by diplomatic pouch. Kissinger wanted to fire Carter outright, but aides persuaded him to soften the punishment. Summoned to Washington for "consultations," Carter was told to forget about going to Copenhagen...