Word: outright
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...empire an Internet zaibatsu. It is a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s. Son doesn't want to own his companies outright, or to run them. He aims to gain implicit control with a 20%-to-30% stake in each and to build a web of mutual cross-investments with sales, marketing and supply ties. "I want us to be No. 1 in every area," says Son. In five years he expects...
...corporate prosperity of the Clinton era has been accompanied by an unparalleled growth in American cynicism - and outright hostility - toward Washington's political class. But the Seattle demonstrations - and the political shock wave they sent around America - showed that passive cynicism may be giving way to active outrage...
...different scenario--going into the last game of the season, it is Yale who is looking to walk off with the Ivy championship. Deadlocked at the top with Brown at 5-1, Yale is hoping for a Bear loss and a Bulldog win to capture the Ivy title outright. Harvard could play the role of the spoiler, however such circumstances do not play into Menick's motivations...
...Yale, on the other hand, has a chance to at least share or perhaps win the Ivy title outright with a win on Saturday...
...program has certainly turned around. Yale now stands at 8-1 with a shot of an Ivy title of its own. Along the way, Walland has rewritten the Bulldogs' record books. He shares or holds outright 13 school passing records...