Word: outrightly
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...while Harvard is relatively free of outright bigotry, the University community has yet to perfect the art of dealing with difference. As a four-part feature series published in The Crimson last week demonstrates, students are asking many questions about the difficulties and challenges of living in a diverse community. Among them...
...know where the problems lie. Doing something about them is at the very least our moral duty and is profoundly in our self- interest as a nation. Depriving millions of Americans of health care is wrong. Wasting billions of precious medical dollars on paperwork, dead-end procedures and outright theft is stupid. Undermining the health of our workers and children for lack of political gumption is suicidal. It is time to make the hard choices...
...cautioned that the study was not detailed enough to prove outright discrimination. But the overall pattern was consistent enough to prompt several Washington lawmakers to call for new antidiscrimination bills...
From all this Friel evokes great sadness, made sadder still by hints and outright warnings from the narrator about what else will befall the beleaguered clan in the half-century between the time he recalls and the time he now inhabits. Yet the play also evokes great joy, in small but vivid exchanges of everyday talk and, most boldly, when the sisters erupt, at home and alone, in the life-embracing energy with which they might once again have danced at Lughnasa...
...have matters improved since Yeltsin returned to Moscow three weeks ago. The situation that Rutskoi tried to phone him about, a movement to secede from the Russian Federation by the Chechen Ingush autonomous republic in the Caucasus, has blossomed into outright rebellion, and the secessionists last week defied a plea to lay down their arms. A much larger ethnic group in southern Russia, the Tatars, declared their region to be independent last week, and even some ethnic Russians in Siberia and the Far East are talking about setting up a breakaway republic...