Word: outright
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...reduced. A Gallup poll showed that 76% would ban the hiring of illegal immigrants. "There is anger out there," contends Roger Conner, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Washington-based group leading the battle for more restrictive policies. "There is fear. There is outright paranoia...
...real bullets instead of plastic ones to disperse youngsters throwing gasoline bombs. But Daly's account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least 14 errors or outright fabrications. Its chief accusation: Daly's principal source, a British soldier named Christopher Spell, did not exist...
...long as males have employed females, sexual harassment-whether a sniggering grab or outright sex-for-salary extortion-has been a fact of countless women's working lives. Yet as the proportion of women in the work force increased sharply in the past decade, so did the reports of on-the-job intimidation. According to the Center for Women Policy Studies, a Washington-based research group, as many as 18 million American females were harassed sexually while at work during 1979 and 1980. But according to antifeminist Crusader Phyllis Schlafly, most of those 18 million were asking...
...China's uncertain liberalization came in a sudden midnight raid by Public Security Bureau agents. Their targets: Xu Wenli, 37, and Yang Jing, about 30, the editors of a hand-mimeographed dissident newsletter, April Fifth Forum, named for a 1976 antigovernment demonstration. Though Chief Editor Xu scrupulously avoided outright criticism of China's leaders and shunned the label of dissident, he has been outspoken in demanding more freedom of expression. Last year he noted that "if only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak of real freedom of speech." Though April Fifth...
When using inflation accounting, other large companies show smaller profits, if not outright losses. Exxon's income dips $560 million to slightly more than $5 billion; Alcoa's plunges from $470 million to $ 144 million. Robert Hampton III, a Price Waterhouse senior partner, says that a survey of 83 companies using inflation accounting last year showed that real profits were about 40% less than those reported on the normal balance sheet. Another survey, by Arthur Young & Co., revealed after adjustments for inflation that airlines, railroads and tire and rubber companies actually lost money. High-technology companies like...