Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Comaneci was last, and she approached the beam needing a 9.9 to tie Davidova, a 9.95 to win outright. Until this Olympics, she had not scored below 9.95 Son the four-inch wide apparatus, and there seemed no reason why she could not lift her score again. But her knee bent ever so slightly on a difficult 360° rotation, and she lost her balance for a millisecond after a patented front flip with a half twist. Even so, she seemed tinged with gold...
...thing," Dole says of his appearance before a New Hampshire gun owners' group, at which then Republican Candidate John Anderson was booed. "What I should have done, at least someone should have done it, was to get up and reprimand them for their treatment of Anderson. They were outright rude to Anderson because he had a different view . . . I resented, after I left, that sort of quizzing in public, trying to lock us in on every little detail that the National Rifle Association might promote. The right-to-life groups are pretty much the same. You have to take...
...President tacitly indicated that the U.S. would be silent about Chinese military moves along its 480-mile border with Viet Nam, short of outright war. The Chinese keep 250,000 to 300,000 Vietnamese troops occupied along that border. Hua backed U.S. efforts to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan and promised Carter that the Chinese would not question U.S. moves in the Middle East. He expressed "very, very strong" support for American efforts to acquire military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia as a counterweight to Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf region...
...majority of dry legalistic reasoning that ignores the real world in which poor women live. Marshall listed some of the alternatives open to an indigent woman who must pay for an abortion herself: "not paying rent or utility bills, pawning household goods, diverting food and clothing money" and even outright theft...
...concerned with their own survival and advancement. To that end, they all plug into "survival networks," exchanging favors to ensure that they will stay in power no matter what work they do or fail to do. Usually nothing so crass as a quid pro quo is involved, much less outright bribery, just an atmosphere of mutual backscratching...