Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million snowmobiles abroad in the land, and the number is growing fast. Nature lovers, insisting that the little vehicles cause damage to the environment and shatter the tranquillity of wilderness regions, have begun pressing for anti-snowmobile legislation. But prospects for effective regulation are poor; the likelihood of an outright ban is nil. Now, however, a study by a Michigan State University professor suggests a more subtle way to deal with the proliferation of the abominable snowmobile (as its foes call it). If it is made thoroughly safe to operate, devotees will get bored and look for something more exciting...
...surprise for the evening--a surprise courteously announced in the New York Times earlier in the day--a poem he had just composed on the bombing of the office of the cultural impresario Sol Hurok, noted for bringing Soviet talent to the USA for many years. Barry Boys said outright that this was not poetic journalism, but that of course is precisely what it was. Yevtushenko stood smiling and looking very pleased as Boys began the poem. He stood in the glory of his art the news is just what our cosmopoet needs. His poems are often the products...
...taped interviews with Hughes, but the damning truth now shows through in a comparison of Irving's manuscript with one prepared for former Hughes Aide Noah Dietrich by Reporter James Phelan. Irving brought considerable editorial ingenuity to reworking parts of the Phelan story in order to avoid outright duplication of language. He embellished incidents, arbitrarily changed statistics, had Hughes sometimes doing precisely the same things that the Phelan book claims Dietrich...
...monetary flurry was far short of an outright crisis, but it was nonetheless an uncomfortable reminder that not even the sweeping Smithsonian agreement had ended the world's money jitters. At one point, the dollar's trading value in West Germany sank so close to its allowable minimum that the Bundesbank spent some $90 million worth of marks to support it, the first time such intervention has been necessary under the new rates. At the same time, the price of gold on Europe's free markets soared to record heights of nearly $50 per ounce...
...Corps, and Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, whose 21st Division cleared the treacherous U Minh forest in the Mekong Delta in a tough but little-noted operation last year. Even so, most U.S. advisers below the rank of major speak of their Vietnamese counterparts with condescension if not outright contempt...