Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holding out bright prospects of sham peace during the electoral campaign." A Viet Cong official insisted that the secret talks had been kept private only "at the imperious demand of Mr. Kissinger," yet also assailed Nixon for a lack of "credibility" in disclosing their substance. The Communists refrained from outright rejection of the Nixon plan, however, and a Hanoi correspondent for Pravda reported that it was being "attentively analyzed" in North Viet...
...biggest worry is a relentless blitz of Government agencies, led by the Federal Trade Commission, to purge extravagant claims or outright deception in advertising and put more straight information into ads. Under its aggressive chairman, Lawyer Miles Kirkpatrick, the FTC last week hurled its latest bombshell. In an unprecedented action, it proposed that the nation's four largest cereal makers be broken up into smaller companies, partly on grounds that their lavish ad campaigns enabled them to keep out competitors and inflate prices. Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods and Quaker Oats were also accused by the agency of falsely...
Ultimately The Cowboys suggests that you are not a man until you have murdered. These children dispatch Dern in an act of outright sadism all the more chilling for its apparent dispassion. Yet Rydell and the screenwriters seem to be congratulating them on their new-found machismo. The Cowboys is no investigation of the inherent evil of the young, like Richard Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica. Nor does it have the awful irony of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (TIME, Dec. 20), in which heroism turned into savagery. Here savagery is seen as heroism...
...match the investor's purchase of preferred shares by buying him an equal amount of common stock in the fund. Until the loan was repaid from dividends and other income from the securities, the shares would be held by the bank. Thereafter the worker would own the shares outright and get all the income...
...Crimson, 0-3 in the Ivy play, must defeat the Big Green tonight in order to maintain its hopes for a tie for the Ivy League Championship. An outright title is virtually out of the question for Harvard, but a tie is possible though unlikely...