Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week either to override the ban on saccharin or, more generally, to amend the Delaney amendment so that the FDA can apply some sort of "reasonableness test" to the results of experiments like those on the saccharin-stuffed rats. There is little sentiment to repeal the Delaney amendment outright or to write detailed standards for the FDA to follow. Congressmen, says one Senate aide, dread being put in the position "of voting how much cancer is to be allowed in food." But public outrage against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices it accounted...
...This would seek to change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright graft and fraud...
...victim of racial backlash. Segregated church membership is one of the last vestiges of organized racial separation in the South and is fiercely defended by many who have brought themselves to accept integration in other areas. Edwards blamed a small group of bigots, including four "openly defiant, outright racist" church deacons, for his censure...
Washington was quietly pleased by the outcome. A pre-vote invitation to Rabin from Jimmy Carter to visit the U.S. was interpreted in Israel as outright U.S. backing of the Rabin candidacy, and Peres supporters protested such undue interference in Israel's internal affairs...
...climbed in 32 months to nearly 2 million, behind only Penthouse (4.6 million) and Playboy (5.7 million). Nearly all copies of Hustler are offered on newsstands, and most of its advertising is for Flynt-marketed dildos, vibrators and other such recreational equipment. The publisher, who owns his magazine outright, claims he netted $20 million last year, two-thirds of it from Hustler, the rest from his sexual devices and from Chic, a slightly flossier Los Angeles-based sibling magazine he launched last summer...