Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both on campus and in construction unions, there is disingenuousness-or worse-in the glib claim that hiring and promotion are most often based on merit and must not be influenced by government. In the selection of new personnel, subjective considerations-nepotism, mutual acquaintances and outright prejudice-often play decisive roles. Moreover, the history of civil rights gains in the U.S. demonstrates that progress often depends upon a requirement of specific indications of progress. Often, the only such indications are numerical. The long battle against the dual school systems in the South would not have been advanced without court-enforced...
...Trial is before a military court, which can also impose jail sentences with no appeal. Decree 007 presented a put-up-or-shut-down dilemma for Saigon publishers, most of whom operate on a shoestring. Thieu's intent was twofold. For the short term, he wanted to kill outright at least some antigovernment papers. Looking further ahead, he wanted to use his temporary decree power to restrict leftist propaganda opportunities in the event that a cease-fire is agreed upon and lobbying begins for a coalition government...
...Council also tables a motion appointing Peterson contingent on Corcoran's removal, and fails to take action on a motion to dismiss Corcoran outright...
...year-old rice farmer, was cutting rice with ten other men in Sam Giang district several weeks ago. About 11 a.m. several B-52s dropped bombs in the field. Eight of the men were killed outright. Only Si and one other made it to the hospital. "I heard nothing," he says. "Then the loud, shaking sound of the falling bombs. I dived. The others were killed instantly...
...event after event, there were officiating blunders that demonstrated incompetence, and sometimes outright bias. The first involved Chris Taylor, the 434-lb. American heavyweight wrestler, in his opening bout with Russia's world champion, Alexander Medved. To most observers, Taylor waged a clean battle with his opponent and clearly should have won the match. Yet Referee Umit Demirag, a Turk, cautioned Taylor twice for fouling, without once reprimanding Medved; the penalty points incurred by Taylor provided Medved with his margin of victory. Demirag's calls were so conspicuously wrong that the Federation of International Boxing Associations afterward summarily...