Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson was clearly gearing up for its showdown with Princeton this Tuesday. A win over the Tigers would give Harvard both the Ivy League and Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA) titles outright. A loss would leave the netmen in first-place ties with Princeton in both conferences...
...Navy's sweep of Penn gave the 15-3 Midshipmen--who have now completed their league schedule--outright ownership of the title, erasing the Crimson's hope of a comeback...
...develop them is increasing. "The incidence at Harvard parallels incidences in the population as a whole," she says. Indeed recent studies found that 75 percent of the fourth grade girls in a San Francisco school were dieting. Other studies indicate that even if the number of people with outright disorders is not increasing dramatically, the number of people on diets who weigh a normal amount is large and growing...
...have to dismantle two older Poseidon submarines the moment the Trident begins sea trials. The Pentagon, contending that the Soviets have already violated the treaty, argues that the Poseidon subs instead should be dry-docked so that they could be quickly returned to sea. Opponents contend that such an outright breach of SALT II would be supremely dangerous because if all limits are scrapped, the U.S.S.R. will be able to increase the number of its warheads much faster than the U.S. However this dispute turns out, the continuing division leaves Washington disinclined to give its negotiators new instructions...
While Reagan on Wednesday night declined to blame Khadafy outright for the bombings at the discotheque and aboard a TWA jetliner over Greece, he said that "We're gathering evidence as fast...