Word: downrightness
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...Dickey-Lincoln dam, a $690.3 million hydroelectric project on the St. John River in northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered...
...sure, the report deflated critics who had contended that some of Lance's pre-White House financial dealings were downright illegal. Most often cited by the critics was Lance's pattern of seeking personal loans from banks with which his own banks in Calhoun and Atlanta had developed "correspondent relationships" (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Yet the report expressed serious doubts about whether this practice was acceptable, even if legal. It also criticized the Calhoun bank for permitting massive overdrafts on the personal accounts of officers and their relatives...
...market for over-the-counter analgesics is $720 million a year, and competing manufacturers have shed almost all advertising restraints in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of buyers. At times they have made claims that are exaggerated, misleading or downright false. The battle of words has, in fact, become openly aggressive ("Tylenol, shame on you!" scolds a Bayer ad). The Federal Government, which began to crack down on deceptive advertising of over-the-counter drugs by pharmaceutical companies in 1972, is now threatening other measures as well...
...although they may flee from one man they are continually on the lookout for another; that women need men to calm them down and set their priorities straight. Les Sauvages projects the old "I know what she needs" attitude and it's just not funny. In fact, it's downright offensive...
...Pleased. At times Brezhnev's manner turned into downright discourtesy. On past state visits Brezhnev, known as a car buff, had received an automobile as a present. This time the French decided to give him not one, but two: a Matra Simca Bagheera sports model and a Matra Rancho cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint...