Word: outright
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...sweep of Dartmouth and Brown, meanwhile, would put Harvard alone in first at 6-0 in the league, while losses to both would either give Tigers the outright title, or, if Princeton loses to Penn on November 7, anything from a two-way to a four-way tie for first. That would make things really messy...
...explains how former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter stunned the Establishment by gathering 58,000 signatures in favor of a total ban on clear-cutting--enough to place the issue on the Nov. 5 ballot as a referendum. Voters will decide if they want to halt the practice outright, reduce it or do nothing...
...season in which it is the outright favorite, in which the Crimson is the team everyone else is gunning for, the motivation to go out and play hard has to come from within...
...lottery has the educational merit of corporal punishment. It must be abolished outright and replaced with another method, perhaps a method as cumbersome as written application. This is, after all, Harvard, not the University of Michigan. --Michael Fertik...
...minds of many Americans, the campaign for health-care reform ended in 1994, when Congress rejected President Clinton's 1,342-page Health Security bill. Ironically, however, while the Clinton health-care-reform juggernaut was coming to naught, the private sector was revolutionizing health care outright--and it continues to do so. Insurance companies, health-maintenance organizations, private-practice physicians, hospitals, drug companies and a host of other vested interests are all fighting furiously to determine which of these interests comes out on top. When all is said and done, I am afraid, the patient...