Word: outright
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Meanwhile, pressure built on Capitol Hill for an immediate redeployment, if not outright withdrawal, of the Marines. House Democratic leaders met to re-examine their support of a measure that allows the Marines to stay in Lebanon until April 1985, while three former CIA chiefs, Stansfield Turner, James Schlesinger and William Colby, urged that the men at least be moved from the Beirut airport. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who firmly backed the Marines' extension last fall: "Patience is wearing very thin. There is no way we are going to be idle if the President doesn...
...most other countries, the problem has been outright neglect of agriculture in favor of more glamorous industrial development. As population growth and urbanization have surged out of control, the plight of rural areas has worsened. Often the state pays artificially low prices for farm commodities in order to finance urban-development schemes and to lower prices for people in the cities. One result: the importation of food has tripled in Africa during the past decade. Nigeria, which was once largely self-sufficient, spends $2 billion a year on imported food. In terms of per capita income and the availability...
...student at Harvard right now was alive the last time someone else won the [outright] title," Crimson Coach Frank McLaughlin says. "But each student here right now can help us change that...
...last time a team other that Princeton or Penn won an outright Ivy League men's basketball title, you weren't even around...
Harvard rejected outright 116 applicants and deferred the remaining 893 for consideration for April admission. About 17 to 20 percent of those deferred are usually accepted, Fitzsimmons said...