Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cincinnati was not the only team robbed outright...
Until his electoral victory, however, Walesa had little real cause for celebration last week. Ever since the first round of the union convention three weeks earlier, Polish authorities had been talking about a possible crackdown and the Soviets had been threatening economic reprisals, if not outright intervention, unless Solidarity curbed its political demands. Walesa and his allies needed to work out some kind of accommodation with the Communist government in Warsaw. In this setting, with the prime responsibility his, Walesa found himself under blistering attack by union members...
Does Israel really want outright annexation of the West Bank? Probably not, although the heavy Jewish migration into a region that was almost totally Arab has made Israel's intentions uncertain. Today the West Bank has 72 Jewish settlements, with a population of 24,000. Fourteen more communities are under construction. These outposts are inhabited mainly by middleclass, well-educated Israelis, who believe that the Bible gives them a timeless right to the land and who insist they will not move, come what...
...little respect and sensitivity for the human body that they could recommend entrusting a man like Hussain with the care of women and men in need of medical attention. And there is no room in academics for men who could satisfy their conception of the truth, not by lying outright, but by omitting from their recommendations a vital part of Hussain's background...
...jury is fundamental to the U.S. system of justice, then it is clearly fundamental that the selection of jurors must also be just. Though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that the newly emancipated blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of case-by-case adjudication has been necessary to develop and enforce the court's principle that all juries must be drawn from "a fair cross section of the community." And how is such a cross section to be determined? The traditional method was that...