Word: outright
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...scale of the carnage has prompted Europe to reluctantly reverse its hands-off position on the conflict: ?An outright civil war in Algeria could easily spill over into France, where hundreds of thousands of Algerians currently live,? says TIME correspondent William Dowell. ?And the new killings are likely cause a flood of refugees into Europe...
...grains. Is that really what we want? For all its dangers, road rage may simply be a corruption of those qualities that Americans have traditionally, and rightly, admired: tenacity, energy, competitiveness, hustle--something, in other words, to be contained and harnessed by etiquette and social censure rather than eradicated outright. Until then, alas, anyone braving the streets and highways of America would be well advised to employ a technique older than therapy: prayer...
Harvard shot 56.6 percent from the field, including more than 60 percent in the second half and an amazing 14-for-21 from beyond the three-point arc in the heartbreaker. The Crimson's mind-boggling shooting and outright hustle was all it had to keep it in the game against the goliath Mustangs...
...oppose discrimination against lesbians and gays, the country has been less certain that they should be allowed to marry and adopt. Last year Congress passed a bill dubbed the Defense of Marriage Act, which said each state could choose whether to recognize gay marriages; 25 states have banned them outright. In this context, says Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay lobbying group, "this [New Jersey policy] is a vitally important agreement. The next stage of the gay-rights movement will focus on all of these issues dealing with our families...
This was not untrod territory for Gallagher, who comes as close as anyone to being the hero of the piece. "Over time," he says, "I've heard more than a few civilian complaints against cops. Most are grossly embellished, and some are just outright lies." But Colbert's detailed reconstruction impressed Gallagher. "I had watched a psychiatrist say on a TV program that if you put disturbed people in a pink-colored room, it calms them down," he says, "and I'd just had the detention room painted pink. There was no way Colbert could have known that unless...