Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimates that at the peak last year 15% to 20% of jobless-benefit payouts in the state were going to people who had no crying need of assistance. But that would include housewives who worked for a while, then quit and legally collected full unemployment benefits. Most estimates of outright fraud now range nationally from 2% to 5%. The Federal Government's latest figures show that less than 1% of claims are made illegitimately-but that counts only the minority of cases in which fraud has been proved...
...send most of their earnings to their families in the tribal homelands far away. The migrants were little impressed by either the young activists' efforts to organize political demonstrations or the government's recent concessions to black militancy, like the decision to allow Soweto residents to purchase outright more than half of the township's houses (for about $1,500 apiece). They were there simply to work and be left alone. When the activists began to threaten them for refusing to strike, threw a couple of Zulu workers off a train and actually set fire...
...expressing the U.S. insistence that the North Koreans take responsibility for the killing of Major Arthur G. Bonifas and Lieut. Mark T. Barrett in an argument over the trimming of a poplar tree (TIME, Aug. 30). The trouble was, there seemed no way to enforce that demand except by outright military action, a step the U.S. was unwilling to take. Already, it had ordered the carrier Midway into Korean waters and sent B-52s on simulated bombing runs near the truce lines. The most that had ensued was a statement from North Korea's Communist dictator Kim II Sung...
...week's end, at least 34 blacks had been killed and 150 injured in renewed rioting across the country. After the June toll of 176 dead in Johannesburg's Soweto township, the eruption of violence raised anew the question of whether South Africa can avoid outright racial war. So far, the white centers remain peaceful, but their long-term prospects are not good...
...steel companies, which weathered the slump better than firms in most other industries, have fared unevenly during the recovery: the industry leader, U.S. Steel, registered a 7% earnings dip compared with the same period last year, partly because of lagging capital goods demand. Among the few industries reporting an outright earnings slump, the most notable was banking; many institutions suffered heavy loan losses in the real estate industry, which was badly battered by the recession. Most banks are now showing strong signs of recovery, and their earnings are generally expected to improve in the months ahead...