Word: outright
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More intriguing was the notion that mighty Citicorp was studying ways to acquire all or part of BankAmerica. Until a new California law takes effect in 1991, an outright buyout of BankAmerica by the New York institution is impossible. Federal bank regulators would also have to approve the move. Just as important, it hardly seemed likely that Tom Clausen had come out of retirement merely to preside over the sale of the empire that he did so much to build...
...last November. Like Reagan, Gorbachev has a < coterie of conservative critics who see no purpose to a second summit. Some Western observers believe the Communist Party General Secretary was criticized within the Politburo last year for getting too chummy with Reagan, and is now dogged by resistance, if not outright opposition, from the military and the conservative party officials...
Respecting the student in a jock strap is one thing; outright favoritism is another. Restructuring an entire course to save 45 minutes of football practice for a handful of students can be called nothing else. The Ec Department needs to rethink its committment to all of its students, rather than rolling a red carpet towards the playing field...
...people back to work." Moore, 46, could become Louisiana's first Republican Senator in this century. In Saturday's "open" primary, a nonpartisan melee in which any candidate who gets more than 50% of the vote is automatically elected, he has a fair shot at winning outright the seat being vacated by the wily Russell Long after 38 years in the Senate. If no candidate hits the mark, the two top vote getters, regardless of party affiliation, face each other in a November runoff...
...outcry were complaints about efforts to jazz up -- critics said trivialize -- the division's approach to reporting the news. As discontent grew, a group of senior CBS journalists, including Anchorman Rather, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Commentator Bill Moyers, made an offer to buy the news division outright from the parent company. They were told it was not for sale...