Word: outright
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Recovering alcoholics sometimes talk about enablers, the people who help them go on drinking, either by encouraging them outright or by cleaning up after them. When it comes to women, Clinton has had a lifetime of enablers--not just the friends who egged him on but also the ones who helped him sidestep accusations. During the '92 campaign, aide Betsey Wright used to fend off "bimbo eruptions," charges about women from his Arkansas days. Senior adviser Bruce Lindsey used to advise flight attendants on the campaign plane to stay out of range of news cameras when Clinton disembarked...
...dollar has swallowed the Cuban peso. Farmer's markets and mom-and-pop entrepreneurs fuel a production boom of sorts. Cars outnumber bicycles again in Havana, and many of them are 1990s Nissans, not 1950s Chevys. Foreign investors not only share ownership of new projects but also own some outright and ship much of their profits home. Modern telecommunications have replaced worn-out phones, and shops and markets offer plenty of goods to those who can afford...
Previously the Faculty had closed down several newspapers that had dared to take a critical view of College policies. Ten years ago it might have banned the new publication outright, but now it held itself to a mild expression of outrage...
President Pusey and The Crimson were back onspeaking terms by 1959, when the President madehis decision to suspend Harvard's use of fundsauthorized by the National Defense Education Act.The government monies, which provided a largeamount of loan funds and outright grants everyyear, came with long and binding strings attached.Every recipient was required not only to sign aloyalty oath but also to sign a document attestingthat the beneficiary had not been a member of anumber of subversive organizations...
...refused to run them, saying they described the procedure too graphically.) The Firestone-Bordonaro infighting has been so damaging that some Republicans fear that Lois Capps, the sole Democrat in Tuesday's open primary, could top 50% in the three-way race and take the once safe G.O.P. seat outright. To charges that he is spoiling the G.O.P.'s chances, Bauer rebuts, "Should Lincoln have supported a pro-slavery Republican in order to win a House seat...