Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable hand-scrawled passages and some outright errors. Said a frustrated House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill: "Nobody knows what's in their bill...
THAT THE SOCIALIST wave reached its peak in France on June 21, 1981 is a view not likely to be contested by the history books. By taking 289 of a possible 491 seats in Parliament, the Socialist Party can now boast outright possession of the legislative in addition to its recent acquisition of the executive branch of the government. A half-century battle by the oft-divided Left has finally, and convincingly, been won. For members of the new opposition, it is time for soul-searching and question-answering...
...could see I was going to be hit. I got my ax in a couple of times, but it came out. It was like a ball of people falling through the air. There wasn't anything I could do." Vreeland and eleven companions survived. Four were killed outright; a fifth died a few hours later of a heart attack...
...south, and the audiences there were poor. Maybe he thought he could reach the urban northeast in this car. Maybe not. He was probably just bored with his other twenty-three cars. When Gadlock talks about Elvis simply calling the studio right after the movie and buying the car outright for $55,000, he gets a strange look in his eyes. It's not the money, necessarily; there's enough quick real estate and oil money in Gadlock's circles that sheer mass doesn't impress. Rather it's the directness. It's the being able to go straight...
...Service. In 1977, under U.S. mining laws dating back to the gold and silver booms of the late 19th century, AMAX (formerly American Metal Climax Inc.), the world's largest molybdenum producer, began staking claims to the deposits, as well as buying some of the privately held land outright. Things have not been the same in Crested Butte since. AMAX went to unusual lengths to calm local fears, even hiring psychologists to study the social effects of the influx of an estimated 1,500 workers and their families into the area. Even so, Crested Butte decided...