Word: outright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...join us in asking the leaders of AAA either to implement an honest system of democratic deliberation and voting or to change its misnomer of a name to something that more accurately conveys the un-representativeness of the organization. To put it bluntly, the leaders of AAA are outright wrong to think that they can engage in political activism without political responsibility. Daniel H. Choi '94 Larry K. Fan '94 Kenji Fujita '94 Alfred Lin '94 Leon S. Yen '93 Founding Members, HRAFR
...Christian Collins's Shelly Levene seems inspired by the Michael Milken saga. Is this yet another latecomer in the formerly fashionable critique of the "excesses of the 1980s," or is it somehow perversely nostalgic for the Glitter Decade? Either way, Glengarry Glen Ross seems unnecessarily dated, if not outright superfluous...
Alas, The Goodbye Girl went wrong in at least four of those 50 ways. What arrived on Broadway last week is earnest, serviceable yet rarely stirring and almost never believable. It's never outright bad, it's occasionally funny, and twice -- when Peters sings the self-help anthem How Can I Win? and when Short courts her on a rooftop -- it's thrilling. But most of the craftsmanship is humdrum. The narrative lacks suspense and liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better...
...Muhammad and the Nation's presentation of Islam is laced with half-truths and outright falsehoods. To someone not familiar with the actual teachings of Islam, Dr. Muhammad's speech would have been an unfortunate introduction...
Annoyed, shareholders have moved to curb such abuses -- just as they have moved to remove a number of CEOs in recent months. Under pressure from big institutional investors, for example, ITT Corp. drastically altered the stock- option plan for its chairman, Rand Araskog. He had received an outright stock gift with no strings attached. The company replaced the grant with a ^ plan based on performance. AT&T also upped the ante for its CEO, Robert Allen. Allen was once awarded 45,000 shares just for staying on the job. Now, he will receive 250,000 shares, but only...