Word: outrightly
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...that men are still twice as likely as women to enter the most highly compensated fields. Moreover, women continue to interrupt employment more often than men (for childbearing, among other things), undermining seniority and availability for promotion. The report downplays an additional explanation for the male-female wage gap: outright sex discrimination...
...thousands of protesters, all clad in white, the color of the opposition, took to the streets of Panama City in the largest antigovernment rally since June. The demonstration was largely peaceful, and police left the protesters alone. For the time being, Noriega seemed to prefer propaganda ploys to outright repression...
Working closely with the ACE and other higher education associations, Harvard officials have lobbied heavily on Capital Hill for increases in financial aid funding. Last year, more than 2000 Harvard undergraduates received some form of federal financial aid, in the form of loans of outright grants...
Accepting this rhetoric on faith would be dangerous, but so would dismissing it outright. If only in public relations terms, it makes no sense for the U.S. and its allies to surrender the high ground. To counter the Gorbachev line, the West will need to come up with initiatives and a new terminology of its own. Above all, it must find ways to induce Gorbachev to show his hand, to reveal what changes in Soviet policy he is willing, and able, to make. So far there have been few concrete changes, and some of them -- involving a more sophisticated outreach...
Buckner always reminded me and my brother of the cartoon character Asterix, with his bushy mustache, but then again Jerry Remy did too. Is it better to be fired outright than to disappear mysteriously like Remy did? Remy was in new Britain last summer, a hitting instructor for the Double-A Britsox. Not even Pawtucket...