Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pajamas by Adolfo, and she still conveys a certain brittle, recherche haughtiness that drives feminists crazy. But she is no longer the liability for the President that she sometimes was during his first two years in office. In fact, in the past two years she has probably become an outright political plus, winning friends and influencing people. She remains tightly wound, by her own description "a born worrier," but now she has a public and private sure-footedness that she once seemed unable to manage. "I have more self-confidence," she says. A longtime presidential aide agrees. "She has become...
...PASSAGE in this book is so extraordinary it is worth quoting outright...
Shortly before the holiday recess, Sofaer denied a series of motions by the Time Inc. attorneys to dismiss the case outright. But he reserved judgment on whether the magazine had been denied due process by the Israeli government's refusal to allow Time Inc.'s lawyers to see key documents, including the secret appendix, and question several Israeli officials. Sofaer has informed the Israeli government that the secret papers can be accepted as evidence only if attorneys from both sides are allowed direct access to them. In a statement attached to Sofaer's letter, Time Inc. attorneys...
...leaked in advance, and everyone assumed it was only an opening gambit. Even so, the scope of President Reagan's budget-cutting proposal was little short of staggering. As presented to the Cabinet last week, it would freeze dozens of politically popular spending programs and mark others for outright extinction. Among the phaseouts: the Small Business Administration and the Job Corps. In the plan's single biggest surprise, the President recommended a 5% pay cut next year for the Federal Government's 2.1 million civilian employees, an idea untried since the depths of the Depression. He prodded...
Federal Reserve officials brush aside such doomsaying. Says Volcker: "The current pause in economic growth need be no more than that." Agrees Anthony Solomon, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank: "These signs of outright weakness are likely to prove temporary...