Word: outright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bears are two games back of the Crimson, both in the loss column. So if Harvard wins its next three games, it clinches a share of the Ivy title, which it can take outright by winning next weekend's home game against Brown...
...once, when he "wondered" if she and Adlai Stevenson did more than discuss international affairs late into the night when they were both staying at the U.S. embassy in London in 1965 and he left his tie and glasses in her room. Imus later admitted he wanted to ask outright "if they'd had sex" but held back because "she's something like 80." In any event, she blithely told him he would just have to "wonder away...
...which serves as a flashpoint for tensions between Bosnian Muslims and the country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option he has considered would be dividing the city into three equal parts, with an international governor administering a free port, the Muslim-Croat federation taking the western half...
This piece of filth is circulating in tightly-knit, highly-privileged circles, and is further establishing the opposition between Us and Them. The outright insults to black people are most insidious. To begin with, Leroy is doing his homework (notice that it's not Lawrence, Buffy, Jane or Joe) and all he has to do is vocab--as a senior in high school. But beyond this, notice the constant subject of prison, cheating and stupidity among other things...
...these demands, Simpson has liquidated almost everything he owned before his arrest in June 1994: condominiums in New York City and California; property in Mexico; his 50% interest in a string of HoneyBaked Ham franchises; even his Ferrari Mondial and the infamous Ford Bronco. What he hasn't sold outright he has mortgaged to the hilt: he borrowed $3 million against his Rockingham home and used a Warhol serigraph of himself as security for a loan he took from his children's estate. He has tapped his homeowner's insurance to pay for his defense in the civil trial...