Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seized power in Phnom-Penh. From Hanoi came pledges of "total support" for Sihanouk, and North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong hurried to Peking to confer with the deposed prince. In Phnom-Penh, both the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong closed their embassies, a move short of outright diplomatic rupture but suggestive of trouble to come...
...biological warfare? The answer may be disappointing. All sides are agreed on stopping production of disease-spreading biological agents, which the U.S. renounced last November. But chemicals are something else. Last week James F. Leonard Jr., head of the U.S. delegation in Geneva, rejected Soviet proposals for an outright ban on chemical agents, chiefly because it would be well nigh impossible to enforce...
Brown finally let the utility representatives go, but not before he warned them that they would not "be allowed to continue polluting the social environment with employment practices of exclusion, tokenism, and outright discrimination...
THAT reform, not money, is the keystone of Richard Nixon's domestic policy was demonstrated again last week with the President's first message to Congress on federal education policy. Rejected outright was the New Deal-Great Society doctrine that the best answer is the one that carries the biggest dollar sign. Nixon proposed no new comprehensive spending plans, no additional substantive programs. Instead, he declared that the U.S. must learn how to teach; Americans must conduct a "searching re-examination of our entire approach to learning...
...conservative People's Party has held a slight plurality over the liberal Socialist Party. For 21 years, the two parties ran the nation (pop. 7,073,000) in "red-black" coalitions, with the conservatives always the dominant partner. In 1966, the People's Party won an outright majority, then governed alone for four years. Last week the Socialists' turn finally came. Because of a shift of only seven seats in the 165-seat Nationalrat (Parliament), Austria is virtually certain to be ruled by its first Socialist Chancellor-and a Jewish one, at that...