Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly lost his 1978 Senate race to a little-known Democrat, Attorney Alex Seith. Trying to keep pace with America's growing conservatism, Percy changed his stands on economic issues, foreign policy and defense spending. Yet he still has only lukewarm support from conservatives and is confronted with outright sniping from the far right...
...aging liberals, William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, the conservative drift could become a sea change. The right to abortion, affirmative action for blacks and women, the ban on school prayer, many procedural safeguards for criminal suspects and free-speech rights would be vulnerable to weakening, if not outright reversal. Says University of Minnesota Law School Associate Professor Daniel Farber: "We could basically end up with the law looking a lot like it did before 1954. We could expect a much more conservative court, a Warren Court in reverse...
...contributors to the i book, some '30 are outright celebrities lor have recognizable names in their "fields. They include Maxine Andrews of the Andrews Sisters ("As we sang Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, all the mothers and sisters and sweethearts sang with us as the ship went off'), Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Actor-Producer John Houseman ("For me, it was a madly exciting time") and Poet John Ciardi ("When you're on a mission and you saw a Japanese plane go down, you cheered. This was a football game"). One might also include...
...will be diminished, Democrats hope, when he speaks at length on matters of substance. Moreover, Mondale adherents dream of Reagan blundering during the debates, making some significant misstatement of fact. The White House preferred to hold no debates at all, but Reagan's political advisers feared that an outright refusal would make their man look evasive...
...opportunities" in the U.S. The program offered by GM reportedly consists of a $1 billion "job security pool" from which workers with as little as one year's seniority can draw pay in the event their jobs are eliminated. The new contract does not contain any outright constraints on GM's ability to import parts and even entire cars from abroad...