Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least another week. Meanwhile, an emboldened Senate was knocking holes in Carter's energy program, which had sailed through the House almost intact. The Senate Finance Committee dumped Carter's proposed penalty taxes on gas-guzzling cars in favor of its own bill to ban them outright, starting in 1980 with those getting less than 16 m.p.g. Next, despite an all-out Administration effort, the Senate voted 52 to 46 against killing legislation that would end federal price controls on new natural gas-supplies. These battles, however, are far from finished, and still could be won by Carter...
...next year. The Senate voted last week to delay the tax to 1980-but to make it practically confiscatory. Its bill would place a stunning $10,000 tax in 1980 on each new car that got less than 16 m.p.g., which would have the same effect as banning production outright...
...could cost President Carter dearly in terms of personal support and in backing for his ambitious legislative program and foreign policy initiatives. What remained unclear, however, was whether the President's determined support stemmed from loyalty, from resentment at being subjected to criticism (even indirect criticism) from an outright conviction that an old friend and lieutenant was being pilloried, or from a combination of all of these factors...
...deemed unfit to print would be restricted to 1-in., unillustrated notices of time and place, the urge to purge has spread. The Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Diego Union, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, and various lesser papers have either banned sex-film display ads outright or placed so many restrictions on them that advertisers have taken their trade elsewhere...
...domestically-controlled economy, has turned Chile into "a bazaar filled with foreign goods that are snapped up by the well-to-do while millions of workers and their families are living hand to mouth." In many cases, workers are not living "hand to mouth" at all, but starving outright. At least 13 per cent of the labor force is unemployed, and 200,000 people are on relief, receiving a monthly income...