Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Sanks and Stewart favor what they describe as '80s-style student activism: action through education and cooperation. "I don't think our organization has anything to gain by being antagonistic. So long as the administration listens without outright rejection, we're okay," says Sanks...
...kicked off an extremely agressive advertising campaign throughout the Boston area. The company has sponsored rock concerts, sports pages in the Boston Herald and parties at the Metro. What Coors has not advertised is a record of discriminatory hiring practices, abusive treatment of employees, hazardous waste dumping and even outright racism that makes it one of the most dispicable companies in the country. Coors' activities have prompted a boycott by many labor, minority, environmentalist, and women's groups nationwide. That boycott deserves the support of the Harvard community...
...safeguard the public, the Center for Science is urging an outright ban on all use of sulfites. But others note that very few ill effects are documented from sulfites in packaged foods and that there is no substitute for them in making wine. Of the twelve sulfite-associated deaths, only one was caused by wine, one by beer and one by hashed brown potatoes. The rest were all linked to fresh fruits or vegetables. Asthmatics and others who suspect they are sensitive can be tested. Those who test positive should stay away from wine. And they should...
Although Jim Villanueva's late field goal saved the tie for the visiting Crimson, that draw cost Harvard the outright Ancient Eight title that it hadn't claimed since...
Good schlock--like An American Werewolf in London or Risky Business--steps gingerly just this side of outright derision of its subjects. Bad schlock--St. Elmo's Fire--hates its characters intensely and usually ends up by offending us or making us squirm...