Word: outright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hottest issue by far is "stock incentives," usually in the form of options that are given to executives outright and allow them to buy company stock at a set price later on. The idea is that as the stock goes up, the employee's rights to buy shares at the older, fixed price become more valuable. While stock options are rare in countries such as Japan and Germany, about 90% of U.S. firms provide them to their senior-level executives. Some companies -- such as PepsiCo, Pfizer and Silicon Graphics -- offer options to all employees, from the mail room...
...fact is that a protest never got off the ground. As Veronica Rosales dispiritedly recounted in her November 23rd editorial, her plan to stage a new march to the Harvard-Yale game protesting for more minority faculty--this time in solidarity with all the ethnic organizations--met outright apathy from all sides...
...Zedong's Cultural Revolution was an eruption of ideological fervor, mass hysteria and outright brutality that left an estimated 10 million Chinese dead and ruined the lives of millions more. Now tales of even more horrible excesses from the years between 1966 and 1976 are coming to light: allegations of cannibalism, involving hundreds of men and women who violated mankind's most powerful taboo in the name of revolutionary purity...
...client, a 45-year-old cancer patient, came to Michigan to consult with him and killed herself on Nov. 23, the bill that had stalled swiftly sailed through the legislature in less than 10 days, on overwhelming votes in both the upper and lower chambers. "It's just the outright assisting in a killing that this bill will prohibit," says representative Joseph Palamara, a Democratic state legislator from Wyandotte. "It doesn't affect whatsoever doctors who withhold or withdraw food...
...American companies are glad they can start to establish a presence in Vietnam. For its part, Hanoi wants Washington to stop blocking World Bank loans crucial to Vietnam's development. U.S. officials hope more trade will help open up the country. But POW activists adamantly oppose lifting the embargo outright -- a decision Bill Clinton will have to make...