Word: outright
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However noble the intention, the formula made friction almost inevitable. The burden of austerity fell heavily on those most in need of help and least able to pay the price. The history of the IMF is peppered with instances of resistance and outright hostility by would-be borrowers. Over the past decade, the problem has grown to alarming proportions. Burdened by huge oil bills, worldwide recession, slumping commodities prices and punishing interest rates, developing countries have been hurt as never before. The big debtors among them need new credits just to meet their interest payments, and most are threatened with...
After Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter's Square more than three years ago, Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca spun for Italian investigators a web of contradictions, phony confessions and outright lies. But one of his revelations has continued to gain ground as an explanation of the assassination attempt: Agca was hired to kill the Pope by the Bulgarian secret service and, implicitly, the KGB, the Soviet secret police...
...outraged when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and proceeded to transform it into a puppet state. That shock, together with widespread sympathy for the mujahedin, has not abated as Moscow has tried to consolidate its tenuous control over the nation by resorting to carpet bombing, chemical warfare and outright massacre of civilians...
...most outspoken critics of teaching hospitals affiliating with for-profit companies is Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. He acknowledges that outright sales or lease arrangements like McLean is considering may help hospitals in the short run, but he fears the long term implications of people concerned with maximizing profits having a hand in administering teaching and research. He said that hospitals like McLean should avoid deals such as the one being discussed and that the government should take a more active role in supporting teaching and research...
Penn, which won its first outright Ivy League championship ever this spring, had four first team All-Ivy selections, while Cornell had two and Brown. Princeton Yale and Harvard had one apiece. The league all-stars were selected by a vote of the seven head coaches...