Word: outright
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When the members of the class of '01 were asked about the Harvard athletic program, most responded with a snide smile or just plain outright laughter...
...harbinger of that change: at state law schools in Texas and California, the end of preferences has meant classes with single-digit numbers of blacks. And as the Supreme Court prepares for next month's new session, its most anticipated case is one that could abolish affirmative action outright...
...require nursing-home residents to make a small co-payment. But the House didn't want to go along. "We did a courageous thing," says Lott. As the negotiations entered their final stage, Lott recalls, the response from House members "went from a courteous blank stare to an outright NO! ... I'm ashamed of the House, and I'm ashamed of the President," says Lott, faulting the President for refusing to take on the senior lobby even at a moment of record approval ratings and with no need to ever face them again at the polls...
...group of 220 young proselytizers in Washington. He took leave from his company and moved his wife and nine children with him. When his stint was up, they headed back to Utah, and Huntsman resumed building the $5 billion, 10,000-employee Huntsman Chemical Corp., which he owns outright. Ten years ago, Huntsman shifted his company's mission from pure profit to a three-part priority: pay off debt, be a responsible corporate citizen and relieve human suffering. Thus far, his company has donated $100 million of its profit to a cancer center at the University of Utah...
...Haley Barbour is, he's a hard man to pin down. In testimony Thursday before the Senate campaign fund-raising inquiry, the former RNC chairman dismissed charges that he used the National Policy Forum to funnel a $1.6 million 'loan repayment' into RNC coffers as "infuriatingly phony" and "outright false." Barbour even tried to turn the tables on Democrat John Glenn by coyly referring to the senator's own experience on the other side of the microphone during the 1989 "Keating Five" investigation. "I understand very well the resentment that boiled up in you during that inquiry," Barbour said...