Word: outright
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...Burger would vote to throw out Roe or, more likely, just shade it at the margins to uphold some state laws that make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. The same uncertainty surrounds Justice O'Connor, who also dissented in Thornburgh but did not call for the outright reversal of Roe. Scalia, a strong Catholic, is believed to be a surer vote to overturn Roe and thereby return the decision on whether or not to permit abortions to the state legislatures...
...accord, a crew from C.A.A.C. flew the plane to Hong Kong and turned the craft over to Taiwan. That represented a major concession by Peking's negotiators, who had originally demanded that Taiwan send a delegation to the mainland to pick up the jet. Taiwan rejected the proposal outright for fear that it might be misread as an implicit recognition of the Communist government. A Taipei official insisted last week that the island's policy toward Peking was still "no contact, no negotiations and no compromise...
This seems to me to be a strange sort of continued sharing of responsibility. In addition Friday's statement would seem to make his earlier position an outright lie. Is this the kind of treatment students and other members of the Harvard/Radcliffe community deserve...
Events have proven SASC wrong for believing that general support for divestment would translate into support for a shantytown. The embarassingly low attendance at the shantytown is indicative of the lack of enthusiasm it has generated among students. In some cases, this lack of support has descended into outright mockery...
...first round of elections is over. Waldheim won a plurality but did not receive the majority he needed; he will face a run-off election on June 8. He only needs four-tenths of a percent to win the presidency outright...