Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the soccer team had a disappointing season last fall, Munro's 26-year record is impressive (192-85-25) and includes five Ivy crowns outright and a share of three NCAA semifinal appearances in 1969 and 1971 and 22 winning seasons...
...this spring. But Administration economists are betting that an economic slowdown will help lower the inflation rate to something like 4% or 5% in the second half of 1974. In fact, a major concern of economic policymakers this year will be to keep that slowdown from turning into an outright recession. Unemployment is already climbing-from 4.8% in December to 5.2% in January -and the fuel shortage is causing layoffs and production cutbacks all over the country...
Since Exxon intends to stay in a country long after both the present government and its successor are gone, it must get along with any kind of regime, from right-wing dictatorship to left-wing populist to outright Communist (witness its Polish contract). Jamieson keeps on his office coffee table a handsome cigarette box presented to him by the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, a vehement foe of both the U.S. and capitalism. Jamieson notes that he has negotiated directly with the Shah of Iran...
...program and accept what they called "alternative funding" and to go the regular Summer School instead. She refused, and now says Crooks's alternative funding offer--which included free room, board and tuition and the same $500 stipend that students in the Health Career Summer Program get--was an "outright bribe...
...acute and often hilarious interviews are illuminated with clips from some 108 films, including rare footage from Hitchcock's silent The Lodger and Vincente Minnelli's neglected adaptation of Madame Bovary. Some of the films reveal youthful naivete; a few are outright embarrassments. But most are works of honest craft, and a surprising number are examples of authentic...