Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorandum suggests that motives behind the election results varied-from outright rejection of the CRR concept in Lowell and Adams House, to disapproval of the electoral procedures in Mather...
...assure passage of any legislation proposed by Allende's leftist coalition. The President, however, is getting around that barrier by purchasing private bank stock with government bonds; the regime has already bought 20% of all bank shares by this method, though it controls only three non-government banks outright...
...impulse without a backward look at what was moral, responsible or remotely desirable for society." Millett's "critical misdemeanor" with Lawrence is treating him out of sequence "to conceal the pilgrimage, hide the life, cover over that emotional odyssey which took him from adoration of the woman to outright lust for her murder, then took him back to worship her beauty, even her procreative beauty...
Dershowitz's dictum is extreme; outright repeal of conspiracy laws seems unwise. They are needed to stop dangerous plots before they are executed. But eminent scholars do support two basic reforms. For one thing, prosecutors should not be allowed to bring conspiracy charges when the plot has been carried out and the participants can be prosecuted for the very crime they conspired to commit. Second, critics like Yale's Goldstein contend that conspiracy law should be more compatible with the more explicit law of attempts. Under that doctrine, an illegal act must be close to consummation before...
...justified its outright denial of all parts of this appeal with a paradigmatic example of that Jeremy Bentham, in a different context, called "nonsense on stilts." As for Cox's assertion that the CRR's procedures denied a full hearing, the Committee readily agreed-but instead of finding this grounds for sustaining his appeal, the Committee used it as an excuse to apologize. I quote from the CRR's reply...