Word: outright
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...only Harvard coach ever to lead his team toan outright Ivy crown (in 1975), Joe Restic becameHarvard football's chief thinker...
...discount outlets. In April he opened what his company calls the world's largest one-designer store, Polo/ Ralph Lauren, in a 20,000-sq.-ft. renovated mansion on Manhattan's tony Madison Avenue shopping strip. The Polo palace, which is the first retail store Lauren has owned outright, represents a gamble that one designer can produce enough strong-selling goods to support a department store-size emporium...
...challenge for the U.S. health system. As the disease continues to spread, the emergence of the AIDS victim in the workplace poses one of the country's most difficult tests of employer compassion and good judgment -- and increasingly, of legal acumen. Many managers have reacted by firing AIDS sufferers outright or banning the employee from work on permanent sick leave. But now, at least partly because a thicket of lawsuits has sprung up around cases of the malady, a growing number of U.S. companies and Government agencies are trying to greet the AIDS sufferer with greater understanding and acceptance...
...league might be persuaded to take in the most prosperous franchises or even agree to a merger that would sweep in the whole U.S.F.L. There was precedent, after all: the N.F.L. in 1950 absorbed the best teams in the fledgling All-America Football Conference and then in 1966 merged outright with the arrivistes of the American Football League...
...worst shape for any postwar expansion period." Roach projects that capital investment for all of 1986 will fall by 4.5%, compared with last year. Says he: "Every time such a contraction has taken place, the economy has been either on the brink or in the midst of outright recession...