Word: outright
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...financial-aid rules that are meant to make college more affordable to the embattled middle class. Starting last month, any family, however rich, may borrow the entire cost of college, however expensive, with low-interest government loans (though interest payments are not deferred as in other federal loan programs). Outright federal grants will still be scaled to financial need, but home equity and family farms no longer count as part of a household's assets, which means more middle-class families will qualify...
While this isn't just a two-person race, it's clear Perot doesn't have a chance in hell to win outright. That's because none of America's 41 presidents have been named H. Ross (or even just plain Ross). There are precedents, however, for George (as in Washington) and variations on the Bill theme (as in William Henry Harrison, who--not coincidentally--defeated van Buren in his re-election bid back...
...letter, which TIME has obtained from church sources in the western U.S., Mahony stated that he was "quite alarmed" over the prospect of a "seriously flawed" Mass. The occasional improvements, he said, are overshadowed by "many questionable poor translations and outright changes in meaning." He charged that the anonymous revisers were supposed to simply re- translate the Latin but strayed "far beyond" their mandate by altering rubrics and even theology...
...article, Choi sets up an opposition between whites and Asians on one side, and Blacks and Hispanics on the other. This creates tension based on misconceptions, stereotypes and outright fallacies. The fact that he is an Asian-American, propagating these images, lends them all the more "validity" in the eyes of the general public...
...father, a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerritt), as well as Norman Maclean's courtship of his wife, Jessie (Emily Lloyd), more fully than they are in the book. Partly it is because director Robert Redford has rigorously maintained the understated tone of a book that never plea-bargains, never asks outright for sympathy or understanding, yet ultimately, powerfully, elicits both...