Word: outright
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Despite a unanimous rejection of Harvard's proposal to demolish a historic building, a city official said yesterday that the vote is more a call for new plans than an outright objection to developing the site...
Diplomats argue persuasively that a policy based on this view would leave the U.S. to confront Soviet expansionism all alone. No country would enter or maintain an alliance with a U.S. that specifically refused to fight in its defense. But in the real world, an outright Soviet attack against a country that the U.S. is committed by treaty to defend is quite unlikely. The decision whether or not to fight most probably would be posed by a Communist threat to a friendly nation that is not formally an ally. And then the threat might well be raised not by open...
...reality, the U.S. and Japan were still a long way from an outright trade war, which would involve a series of trade reprisals by both sides. "Like real wars," says I.M. Destler, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, "trade wars tend to leave everybody worse off." Two years after Washington passed the virulently protectionist Smoot-Hawley bill in 1930, the wave of trade and currency reprisals that it provoked slashed U.S. exports by 60%, helping deepen the Great Depression. Japan's obsession with maintaining supplies of raw materials for its export industries was largely responsible...
Glynn was assigned outright to Pawtucket, but, as a three-year major league veteran, may choose to become a free agent within three days...
...added that the resolution, which will be debated at next Monday's city council meeting, "strongly condemns (Senate Bill) 2142 as an outright attack on teas of thousands of low and moderate income and elderly tenants in Cambridge and elsewhere...