Word: outright
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...communities, the Turkish Cypriots have insisted that the island's intercommunal problem cannot be solved on an international basis, but must be settled at home-and on the basis of federation. Neither side has been willing to compromise. Hostilities between the two communities go back for generations; outright separation has been in effect since 1974 when right-wing Greek Cypriots favoring enosis (union) with Greece took power in Nicosia in a coup, thus triggering the Turkish invasion. Since then, the Turkish-dominated part of the island has managed to survive only with economic help from Ankara, which currently provides...
...placing U.S. military equipment in Israel, holding top-level military exchanges, conducting joint exercises and sharing worldwide intelligence data. The U.S. may be even more generous with its financial aid, partly by turning a larger percentage of its huge annual subsidy (an estimated $2.6 billion for fiscal 1984) into outright grants...
...last year, he came as close as he ever had to endorsing Israel's right to exist. In April he entered into negotiations with King Hussein on President Reagan's plan to link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Although Israel had rejected the plan outright, there was just a possibility that if Hussein and Arafat could reach agreement, the U.S. would be able to press Israel to begin talks with Hussein...
...three or more: one for local service, another from one of AT&T's proliferating competitors for long-distance tolls, and one from AT&T Information Systems for the lease of the telephone. Many people who previously rented their phones, though, may now buy them outright. Next week AT&T will launch the biggest private direct-mail operation in history. It will send brochures to 70 million customers telling them that under divestiture it will be taking over ownership of their telephone equipment. Consumers currently renting phones will be given options to buy them, continue leasing them, or purchase...
...full quarter, the tie the Crimson needed to gain an outright championship seemed possible. But the Quakers broke a scoreless tie with three touchdowns in the first 5:39 of the second quarter to put the game away...