Word: outright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, anger, exasperation and outright bitterness could be seen on the faces of more than a few of the less-than-holy Saints...
...B.C.C.I.'s $20 billion or more in assets last year, less than $2 billion is recoverable, the bank's liquidators say. Most of that money disappeared in outright theft, uncollectible loans, bribes and losses on trading. The bank's collapse has meant disaster for more than 1 million depositors...
...political influence that goes with it," says a B.C.C.I. investigator. Just what Zayed might demand for pouring more billions into what's left of B.C.C.I. remains unspoken, but Abu Dhabi has made it clear in the past that it would prefer some sort of restructuring to outright liquidation...
...commonwealth has managed to stave off, at least for the moment, the threat of an outright economic war between the sundering union's republics. That prospect played no small part in pushing the commonwealth's founders together. When Yeltsin, Kravchuk, Belorussian leader Stanislav Shushkevich and some aides gathered at the Belovezhskaya Pushcha dacha, a forest retreat outside the city of Brest, on Saturday, Dec. 7, they appeared to have no intention of declaring the old union dead and founding a new association. But they quickly found they could not come to any other agreement -- and agreement was imperative...
While a few School Committee members rejected the condom idea outright, committee member and former mayor Alfred E. Vellucci offered an alternative solution: give students vouchers to pick up condoms at nearby stores...