Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over the years." The sample fish in the study were bottom feeders, such as carp and catfish, which scavenge in slimy sediment, where dioxin tends to settle. Cautious environmental officials renewed warnings against eating fish from the Tittabawassee, though no outright ban has been declared. The exact health risk from dioxin absorbed by fish has not been determined...
...shocked to read that women in China who are up to nine months pregnant can be forced to undergo abortions. That is outright murder...
Though committee actions are not strictly binding, they have a political force that cannot readily be ignored. If the Administration rejects the committee's demands on the transfer of funds, it risks outright rejection of other requests for military aid to El Salvador that must go through the normal legislative process...
...banking lobby, to attach an amendment to the Social Security bill that would delay by six months a requirement that banks withhold taxes on dividends and interest. This proposal, advanced by Democratic Senator John Melcher of Montana, was a modified version of an effort to repeal the withholding requirement outright. The week before, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Robert W. Kasten tacked the repeal proviso on to the Senate's $5.1 billion jobs bill and got trounced...
...quickly as the Crimson had dashed Penn's hopes of an outright Ivy League title. Princeton did the same to Harvard--sending the lax women back to Cambridge with a disappointing 0-2-1 spring trip record...