Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, Mitchell held another distinction. With the Peace Prize still to be announced, his Nobel was the only one presented this year that U.S. citizens did not either share in or win outright. In recent years, Americans have dominated the ranks of newly elected Nobel laureates. In 1978 the U.S. is continuing this streak, with six Americans among the nine winners...
...alternatives to Stage 2, Administration planners believe, are worse. In a burst of candor, COWPS Director Barry Bosworth said that if the plan fails, the U.S. will face a "cruel choice" of outright wage-price controls or recession. Some non-Government economists, including Democrats Arthur Okun and Walter Heller, also believe a recession is becoming more likely, partly because inflation is eating up consumer purchasing power, partly because the Federal Reserve Board is pushing interest rates so high...
There are a number of reasons for the underrepresentation: the Hispanics' relatively late arrival as a major immigrant group; their reservations about politics, often the result of once having lived under corrupt, autocratic regimes; their traditional preoccupation with family and community affairs rather than broad political issues; outright racial and social discrimination. But the most immediate ?and most easily remedied?reason is their failure to register in sufficient numbers. Of 7 million Hispanics eligible to vote, only 37.8% are registered, vs. 66.7% of the population as a whole...
...invention was also unwisely financed. By buying land outright (with money acquired from selling Government-backed bonds) and by building facilities before they were needed, developers saddled themselves with high fixed interest costs long before sales and rental income started flowing. In Park Forest South, for example, land costs were 89% higher than expected, while sales for the first five years were 58% lower than expected. Developers of seven HUD-financed new towns eventually defaulted on interest payments, leaving the agency to pay bondholders $149 million and take title to the bankrupt burgs...
...seems a natural outcropping of the hill on which it was built 179 years ago. In his stories, Cheever has satirized the obsession to collect and preserve old things. "It represents inertia, lack of enthusiasm, everything I detest in life." Then the curator of his own stories laughs outright: "However, if you want to see my grandmother...