Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city councilors, many of whom represent areas particularly hard hit by unemployment, have voiced dissatisfaction with the employment plans proposed by these essentially white collar firms. One such program submitted recently to the council by one of the DNA firms was rejected outright by several councilors as inadequate. "We need to control what kind of industries come into the city." says Councilor David Sullivan. "I'm not suggesting that we bring in a steel plant, but we could have a technology manufacturing plant that makes for example, computer chips...
...often happens, the gifts one chooses for oneself can be too costly. Incensed taxpayers fired off 20,000 letters of protest, calling the tax break a backdoor pay raise on members' salaries of $60,662.50. Agreed Congressman Lawrence DeNardis of Connecticut: "It was outright legislative fraud and deceit...
John. Paul, George and Ringo created havoc because wherever they went; teenage girls were likely to collapse in great numbers or infiltrate hotels on search-and-scream missions. Mick Jagger was leading what appeared to be an outright insurrection. The Stones incited legitimate riots by 1965 and rarely got though more than four or five songs. Their fans either rushed the stage and destroyed their equipment or had so intimidated the hapless policemen sent to protect the performers that the power would be shut down...
...that price, Pickens decided that it was time to go for outright majority control, and two weeks ago he made his move. In a telephone call from his Texas headquarters to Waidelich in Tulsa, Pickens proposed, as a "friendly offer," that Mesa pay $50 a share, or $1.8 billion, for 46% of Cities Service stock, plus $1.9 billion more in promissory notes and Mesa stock for the remaining 49% of Cities Service shares. The startled Waidelich, faced with the prospect of seeing his company disappear into a firm a fraction of its size, fought back the next day with...
...American steel companies charge that the Europeans are using cutthroat tactics, including predatory pricing and domestic subsidies, to sell their products in the U.S. at less than it costs to manufacture them. They maintain that the Europeans can sell their products cheaply because many producers are either outright government owned or else heavily subsidized...