Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fired recession of 1974-75? The answer will not be clear even when the final gavel ends the OPEC meeting in Geneva and the economic summit in Tokyo. But the prospects are cheerless: at best, a slowdown in global growth, accompanied by more inflation; at worst, an outright recession?also accompanied by more inflation. Already, the downturn-that-might-be has picked up a name. Washington economists are calling it Khomeini's Recession?after the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose Iranian revolution began the oil shortages and rocketing prices that are causing world economic anxiety...
...existed in Nicaragua and that they considered the Sandinistas to be "a legitimate army." The declaration was designed to allow the group to supply arms to the rebels without violating international laws against intervention in the internal affairs of another country. It also brought them one step closer toward outright recognition of the five-member "temporary government" of Sandinistas and moderate anti-Somoza leaders named by the rebels last week...
...detailed plan for equitably allocating OPEC supplies among the consuming countries, combined with some sort of joint conservation target. Proposals for an outright buyers' cartel to control consumption, much as OPEC controls production, are thought to be too ambitious. A more realistic expectation is a simple extension of the one-year 5% cutback in oil imports pledged by the 20-nation International Energy Agency last March...
...graft, including former President Acheampong, who had leniently been exiled to his native village in lieu of being tried. Rawlings followed up the arrests with a blunt warning to civilian winners of the forthcoming elections: "Anyone of you who misuses the opportunity to serve the country will be shot outright...
...Such outright farce as the film contains is confined to a sort of decorative frieze of character actors surrounding the main action. The most effective isGregory Sierra as a husband continually cuckolded and perpetually seeking revenge on the prince. Sierra is usually assaulting the wrong man entirely, ending up with his schemes backfiring on him-a sort of Wile E. Coyote in human form. Most of this comedy turns out to be perfunctory, as is Director Quine's handling of the straight action scenes. There is an unnerving feeling that most of the performers would like to do more...