Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children's films often go for $14.95. This has prompted many mass merchandisers, notably Sears, to start selling cassettes in their stores. Mom-and-pop shops, which started out in rentals only, have been slow to adapt to the trend. One reason is the higher cost of selling tapes outright, since the stores must pay for large inventories. Big retail chains tend to get better wholesale terms from the movie studios and therefore are able to offer lower prices to consumers...
...biggest question mark--or marks--for the Crimson is between the pipes. Senior Dickie McEvoy and junior John Devin will share time in the net until one earns the starting job outright...
...Broadway last week, depict men of privilege and potential who, out of indifference or gleeful masochism, systematically degrade everything around them, not least their own bright promise. They are apt to view their intelligence either as a burden, leading people to expect things of them, or as an outright curse, lifting their vision just enough to comprehend genius but nowhere near enough to emulate it. Well into their middle years they remain obsessed with the glories of university days, when the ethereal world of ideas opened to them, and regard everything that has come afterward as a sordid compromise...
Incidentally, Harvard could win the title outright if Cornell and Penn each lose their next two league games and then tie each other November...
...Tigers have won the most Big Three crowns--22 outright and 12 shared--over the series' history, followed closely by the Bulldogs (22, 10). Harvard, with 15 outright titles and 11 shared crowns, is a distant third...