Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There hasn't been an outright Ancient Eight football champion since 1980. Moreover, no titlist has gone undefeated in league play since Dartmouth went 7-0 in 1970, when the Big Green actually finished 17th in the nation...
Harvard, of course, can make life easy on itself by winning the championship the old-fashioned way: by earning it. If the Cantabs are victorious in each of the next three games, they'll waltz into their first outright league title since...
...asked. The discussion of issues gets squashed into two-minute spiels and one-minute rebuttals that are wildly oversimplified at best and all too often downright misleading. In past campaigns, charges New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, "nothing . . . has spread more misinformation, more false claims and more just outright mischaracterizations of things than those debates have...
...initial quickie polls, while hardly reliable, confirmed the perceptions of most political analysts: Bush came out slightly ahead overall, and women viewers split about evenly between the two candidates. Four out of the seven members of a panel of debate judges assembled by the Associated Press gave Bush an outright win, while one thought Ferraro had eked out a victory and two scored the match as a tie. Both performances had been sufficiently credible for the candidates' backers to claim a win. Said G.O.P. Campaign Manager Edward Rollins: "The Vice President did extremely well." Countered Ferraro Campaign Manager John...
About 10% of Americans between the ages of 65 and 75 are senile. The President clearly is not. Doctors watching the debate saw no signs of slurred speech or outright memory loss, the usual telltales. They did suggest that Reagan should be regularly tested for mental acuity. Though Reagan promised in 1980 that he would undergo testing for senility if elected, so far he has not. Earlier this year he told an interviewer that he would take the tests "only if there was some indication that I was drifting ... Nothing like that has happened...