Word: outright
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...budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning next Oct. 1, and it was anything but cheery. In an effort to curb the deficit monster, Reagan asked for a total spending increase of just 1.5%, the lowest such rise in 21 years, which would force severe cutbacks or the outright cancellation of many domestic programs. The proposed slashes in spending sent out shock waves to states and cities across the nation, as Governors and mayors calculated the drastic effects on their budgets. Many members of Congress, including some Republicans, voiced indignation that the otherwise austere budget calls for a 13% increase...
Nonetheless, Grassley and Kassebaum recommend an outright freeze on military spending as the only way to shock the Pentagon into the "substantive management reforms" that would buy fighting efficiency rather than military fat. Other lawmakers advance the idea of a freeze on viscerally political grounds rather than in the cause of efficiency. Their argument to the White House is in effect: Don't ask us to cut spending on food stamps and Medicare while approving higher outlays for missiles, planes, tanks and guns. If you are going to try to freeze overall spending, well, freeze everything. Then at least...
...additional U.S. funding for the contras last June. Though the contras have managed to continue their campaign, it seems most unlikely that they can fell the Sandinistas even if American financing is resumed. And if the Sandinistas consolidate their power despite the contras, what then? Short of outright American military intervention, U.S. officials see only bleak alternatives. One is to accept the Marxist government, and Washington is in no mood to do that. Last week the U.S. put off talks with the Sandinistas and walked out of World Court hearings on a Nicaraguan suit against the U.S. for its support...
...Piscataway High, Principal James Koch, proud of the "tight ship" he runs, said that the decision "puts an element of safety and stability back into public schools," without which "no education can take place." At other schools around the country, the judgment brought more applause and, in some states, outright relief. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, teachers and administrators, uneasy about their rights of search, "have been looking the other way" when they sensed that something wrong was afoot...
...negotiating climate seemed not much warmer than the temperature, which dropped so low (14 degrees F) that Gromyko said jokingly that he would "rather be in Siberia." Both sides came in talking so tough that U.S. journalists in the immense press corps (see box) were speculating about an outright collapse of the talks...