Word: outrightly
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...Judge Laughlin Waters of Los Angeles. "Most judges don't want sentencing guidelines, period," admits Chairman William Wilkins of South Carolina, a federal appeals judge. But, he adds, "we all recognize we need a system where there is certainty and fairness. Without guidelines that is impossible." The absence of outright enthusiasm from any quarter for the commission's approach may be inevitable. As Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan says, "I think it will prove unsatisfactory. In this area nothing is satisfactory...
...blatant use of sexual entrapment. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has issued at least three reports on the subject and personally briefed Reagan last spring on the vulnerability of the Moscow embassy. But all these initiatives died, White House aides contend, amid bureaucratic sluggishness and even outright resistance on the part of the State Department...
Democrats in the House barely managed to exclude these provisions from the bill only at the last minute. But Reagan's attempt to manipulate the crisis remains evidence of base political demogoguery and outright hypocrisy...
...mean to suggest that the protesters, though legitimate in their use of tactics that violate University regulations, should remain immune from future disciplinary action. If they violate University regulations, they subject themselves to disciplinary proceedings, or in some cases outright arrest. In general, the protesters accept such consequences of their actions as well, as long as they receive a fair hearing and a chance to defend themselves. The reason civil disobedience is a popular and successful method of protest is that it violates certain rules, in this case by blocking exits, for the purpose of making a public statement...
Donald notes that "Wolfe's fundamental concern was less with political and economic conditions that with the spirit of America." And the spirit of America was, of necessity, one which he had felt in his own soul, deeply, at times abstractly if not outright vaguely, in exhortations and patriotic rumblings and sentimental dithyrambs. The difficulty with such an artistic creed is its high risk factor, its potential to bring about disillusionment...