Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November, the Harvard football team captured a 14-10 victory over Yale, which gave the Crimson its first outright Ivy League title in 12 years...
Following the conclusion of its western roadtrip, Harvard (18-3, 9-0 Ivy) will finish its Ivy League season at Briggs Athletic Center against Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth the following weekend. The Crimson can clinch its first outright Ivy League Championship by winning four of its last five games...
...which State believes the U.S. is required to tolerate as the U.N.'s host country, the State Department threw the Washington office to the wolves. But in December Congress cut through all the legal technicalities about what is and is not a foreign mission and simply banned both offices outright. They went down in a spray of self-congratulatory press releases: KEMP DECLARES A VICTORY IN WAR ON TERRORISM, GRASSLEY WINS IN FIGHT AGAINST P.L.O., and so on. A federal district court has upheld the Washington office closing, and the Justice Department seems determined to shut the New York office...
...Jersey, that state's supreme court is one of the nation's most influential, especially in matters of bioethics. "This ruling deals a death blow" to the practice, says Jeremy Rifkin of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy. About 27 states have considered legislation on surrogacy, ranging from regulation to outright prohibition. Last July Louisiana passed a law voiding surrogate contracts, and last week the Nebraska legislature voted to do the same...
...this the Administration has only itself to blame. In seven years, Ronald Reagan has failed to articulate a coherent policy toward the Sandinistas, while his Government's actions have covered the range from amateurism to outright duplicity. Says New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, a Democrat who once supported contra aid: "There is a difference between speeches that rail at Communists and a policy that effectively counters them. Speeches are easy. Policy takes effort and care...