Word: outright
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...might win your first title since 1983. You might win your first outright title since 1975. Harvard might have have its first undefeated season since 1968. The Rose Bowl might call...
...know I'm no fan of Jim Bakker, but Jim Bakker has also been screwed," Hahn said. "I believe Jerry Falwell just outright screwed...
...plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that courts should "renounce outright the whole notion of congressional standing...
Still, Bork has never said outright that he would strike down Roe, and of late he has even paid lip service to the judicial principle that it is better to leave certain long-settled decisions in effect if reversing them would create chaos. Bork has never declared that abortion is morally wrong, and in 1981 he testified in Congress against the "human life" bill that would have defined life as beginning at conception. Says John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee: "We're not sure Bork is against abortion. In our circles, there is substantial doubt that...
Moreover, in the near future the court is not likely to hear any cases that deal with outright prohibitions against abortion. "What they're going to have," says UCLA Law Professor Julian Eule, "is cases that deal with a variety of obstacles to abortion that the states have constructed. Therefore, what the court would do, rather than say, 'We abandon Roe v. Wade,' is to allow increasing leeway to states to regulate the parameters of the right to an abortion." More regulation would undoubtedly mean fewer abortions...