Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew Jackson was an unhappy man in the fall of 1825. Nominated for the presidency as the candidate of the South and West, he had tallied 99 electoral votes, more than any of his three competitors. But his failure to gain an outright majority threw the election into the House of Representatives, where Henry Clay--a distant fourth-place finisher in the initial balloting--donated his votes to John Quincy Adams, allowing the New Englander to sneak off with the keys to the White House...
...matter how many city officials decry the plan, however, there is no guarantee the state will come up with a new, progressive tax system. The legislature would have to act on Proposition 2 1/2 before it could become law, and it could easily alter it or reject it outright...
...That we reject outright any and all special interest groups and leaderships that serve only to deepen our divisions and entrench us, angered, into separate camps...
...course, about the author. Douglas emerges as an impassioned loner, fiercely dedicated to his causes yet just as seriously committed to allowing his fellow justices their causes as well. He is almost a cowboy justice, set apart from those he calls "the proselytizers." Though he never says so outright--he couches all criticism of former justices in the most diplomatic phrases--he never liked these proselytizers, the most celebrated being Harlan Stone, Hugo Black, and Felix Frankfurter. Douglas viewed the justice's job differently, less an evangelist than a workman who makes up his mind, then goes home...
...Biogen lawyer Kenneth Novack added that "the city has already made a decision: it could have banned DNA work outright, or left it completely laissez-faire. Instead, it chose to allow DNA research within certain regulations, regulations that we already follow...