Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects are already showing up in Europe's accounts. Italy's trade deficit is expected to drop to $6 billion this year, compared with $10.7 billion in 1974; the nation no longer faces a threat of outright bankruptcy, as it did last fall. The French government estimates that its trade deficit will shrink from $3.7 billion in 1974 to $2.3 billion this year. Even sickly Britain is managing to reduce its huge trade deficits...
...Maher's position is severe by any measure. Catholic canon law provides that women or doctors who intentionally involve themselves in abortions are automatically excommunicated, but Maher is now denying the Eucharist on the basis of individuals' personal beliefs about the matter. Before it was modified, his outright ban on NOW membership was unusually extreme. Historically, Catholic bans on specific organizations have been rare and have involved only groups like the Masons, which the church opposed for many years as essentially anti-Catholic...
...seem insignificant in a nation with 470 million acres of cropland, there is a hitch. Much of the lost acreage is top-quality farm land, rich soil that the U.S. should keep as a major resource. But to save such land for farming has been almost impossible. Buying it outright is too expensive. Zoning it for agricultural use only can often be illegal. The U.S. Constitution forbids any action that lowers land values (in this case by banning any sort of development) without "just compensation...
...developers from obliterating Suffolk's rural character, the citizens of the county have decided to try something new: buying not the farm land but the farmer's right to sell his acreage to developers. That will cost money, but not as much as buying the land outright. If a farm is worth, say, $6,000 per acre to a developer but only $1,500 per acre to a farmer, the county will pay the difference-$4,500-for the "development rights." In return, farmers who join the program must agree to keep the land in farms forever...
...months ago was in spectacular trouble. Because of the rapid run-up in world petroleum prices, the cost of imports was exceeding exports by $5.5 billion annually, inflation was running at 24.5%, and only emergency loans from the International Monetary Fund and the German government saved the nation from outright bankruptcy. Today demand is slackening and Italian inflation is fast diminishing: wholesale prices in February rose a mere 0.2%, v. 6.8% in the same month last year. But the price of whipping inflation has been high. Industrial production in January was down 15% from the year before-the biggest monthly...