Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line the pockets of big, rich farmers far more than lower-income people on the land. Thus Washington should stop interfering with the free movement of agricultural prices and attack the periodic problem of low farm income directly -by supplementing what the marginally efficient farmer gets at market with outright Government payments. Under this plan, the Government would determine just how high the market prices for major crops should be in order for farm families to live adequately. If prices fell below that level, the Government would make up the difference by a direct income grant. Huge agribusiness firms...
...plot that Writer-Director Hodges has concocted is an affectionate and very often hilarious pastiche, at once a deft parody of a genre and loving tribute to it. In Hodges' first film, Get Carter (1971), he carried his absorption in the thriller close to outright imitation. For all its brutal energy, the movie was too heavily reminiscent of John Boorman's Point Blank. Hodges has not only got his distance in Pulp; he has also found a style and voice of his own. He is constantly, ebulliently inventive, whether in the scrupulously outrageous dialogue ("I expected the place...
...permitted to disrupt the University during the 1969 Harvard strike. Although analytically unsound (students, he said, held radical beliefs because they were either 'crazy' or bereft of feminine companionship), the book was received with predictable acclaim by a sordid mixture of tired old leftists-turned-cold warriors and outright conservatives...
Internally, the Bureau is torn by conflict between its staff of streetworkers (the people who deal directly with the kids) and an administration that is undermining their programs and proposals. Many see the Bureau as either a waste of time, or an outright detriment to kids. Staff turnover has been high, and tangible accomplishments by the Bureau are almost impossible to find...
Most of the nations of Latin America have severely restrictive abortion laws on the books; in fact, abortion is totally illegal, even on medical grounds, in Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala and Panama. It is also banned outright, or only rarely permitted, in the predominantly Catholic countries of Europe, in most of the new African states, and in some Asian countries, among them Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan...