Word: outright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bears needed only a tie to win the Ivy championship outright, but with the loss, will have to share the honor with Princeton as co-champions...
...Marriott worry about storm insurance, hurricanes and repainting the woodwork every year," says John D. Strong, 63, of Decatur, Ill., who has 14 weeks at four properties in Hilton Head, S.C., where beachfront property was too expensive for him to buy outright. Strong and his peers are also getting variety through bartering. For a fee of about $120 a year, companies like Resort Condominiums International and Interval International will broker an exchange, letting time-share owners in, say, Florida, the most popular destination, journey off to Colorado or Europe...
...think about it. The handshake is expected and is executed automatically in a ritual little babble of nicetomeetyouhowdoyoudo? If you had an attack of fastidiousness and refused to shake someone's extended hand, then the handshake would become an awkwardness and an issue, a refusal being an outright insult...
Charades can't persist forever. In the years to come, as conventional medicine continues to make rapid advances and as the public becomes better informed about the deception and outright medical ignorance of many of these hucksters, alternative medicine will be consigned to what indeed is its rightful place: alongside snake oil, orgone booths and laetrile in the dustbin of medical history...
Where fishing in the wild has been banned outright, fish stocks are starting to come back. Where "street-sweeper" trawls that devastate the seabed have been prohibited, nurseries and habitats are beginning to recover...