Word: outright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recommends that smoking should be banned outright indoors," Herz said. "If not, smoking should be limited to a separately ventilated smoking room and the air must be exhausted outside of the building...
...coronation ceremony has begun. No sooner than Colin Powell retires as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the media is abuzz with speculation about his political future; many have predicted outright that he will soon be president. At the very least, pundits expect him to be tapped for the vice-presidency or a major Cabinet post...
...other hand, Lyle has not exactly shown the brothers to be lovable enough to deserve outright acquittal. Witness part of his testimony about killing Kitty: "I could see somebody moving where my mother should be. So I reloaded. I ran around and shot my mom. I shot her close." The betting now is that the two will be convicted of a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter or second-degree murder, with acquittal an outside chance. But nobody ever knows what a jury, let alone two juries, will do when the door closes...
...others questioned various aspects of the proposal, from important details Clinton omitted, to outright doubt that the plan would help those who most need...
Most of my advice over the years has been on the marks, as I think back, but there have been many missed opportunities, and some outright mistakes. Sometimes I would think of just the right course for a student when it was too late: you see a familiar face at, say, Commencement, and suddenly it comes to your head that you have just the right idea about that one special course that this student has to take. In general, my worry is that too many students at Harvard miss too many opportunities for achieving the best possible liberal education. There...