Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (21-4 overall, 12-1 Ivy) will face Dartmouth Tuesday night at Briggs Cage for the outright Ivy title. Dartmouth's 51-49 squeaker over Yale in Hanover Saturday night gave the Big Green a chance to tie for the crown with a win over Harvard...
...congressional district: any candidate who gets 15% of the vote in a district (down from 20% last time) gets a share of the delegates. Of the 167 districts in Super Tuesday states, Jackson's wall maps have 60 of them in blue, meaning that he could win them outright. An additional 45 are marked red, meaning that he could meet the threshold and get some delegates. Even rival campaigns and state party officials believe Jackson could emerge from the 14 Southern and border states with a plurality of delegates. "You can't write him off anywhere but Oklahoma and Kentucky...
Gromyko provides scant detail about the six major Soviet leaders under whom he served. He calls Joseph Stalin a "cruel man" who "created a monstrous ) tyranny," a view consistent with the latest winds of glasnost, but he refuses to condemn Stalin's terror outright. One of the most revealing anecdotes in the book is Gromyko's account of a telephone call he received from Konstantin Chernenko one day in 1985 in which the ailing Soviet leader asked whether he should resign because of ill health. "There's no need to hurry," Gromyko cautioned. Three days later Chernenko was dead...
...kept the Crimson (20-4, 11-1 Ivy) one game up on the Big Green in the Ivy League standings with only two games left in the season. Tuesday night's matchup between the two top teams at Briggs Cage could decide whether the Crimson will win the title outright or share it with red-hot Dartmouth...
...when they ask audiences to see more complex layerings of space, time and memory. The screen, large or small, is the place for action. The theater is the nonpareil place for inward thought outwardly expressed. Audiences can witness recollection, reverie or fantasy -- or, as surprisingly few writers have explored, outright madness...