Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before news of the abduction was made public, the bureau received a tip that the daughter of William Randolph Hearst, not Randolph A. Hearst, had been kidnaped. "It has been like that," says Austin. "Tips that get twisted. Rumors with kernels of truth. Outright lies." How, then, to get the story? "It's like being a fireman," says Boyce. "You answer every alarm though you know it may be false. You continue to dig, check and crosscheck, and try to put the pieces together...
...there are no clear explanations for the underrepresentation of women in the winners' circles for these 29 awards, recognizing individual essays, poems, musical compositions or academic achievement. One Radcliffe administrator has called the findings "mysterious." An investigation is now underway to determine whether outright discrimination among judges, poor publicity of the prizes, or disinterest among women students lies at the root of the discrepancy. The corrective effort seems to have universal support from Radcliffe and Harvard officials; Dean Whitlock has written a letter of inquiry to those prize committees that have not recognized women in their eligible proportions...
...subsidy applications promptly followed. CAB Chairman Robert Timm has expressed public support for the idea of federal financial assistance to U.S. international airlines to help them pay for excessive fuel costs, and legislation is pending in Congress to provide exactly that assistance. The only alternative appears to be outright nationalization...
...slowly." The likelihood is that only building land for residential and industrial development and port facilities and trucking will become state owned. On North Sea oil, the Wilson government is expected to seek a 51%-49% partnership with the oil companies in licensing agreements but will stop short of outright nationalization...
Harvard, winning its twelfth national squash championship in the last 13 years, came close to winning the crown outright. Princeton's second and eighth men, Dave Bottger and Jeff Oakes, had to struggle before eking out 3-2 wins...