Word: outright
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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard faces Penn next week at Philadelphia, where it hopes to win the title outright. A win would give the Harvard seniors Ivy titles in all four of their years. "We should be able to beat Penn," freshman Stephanie Wired said...After Penn, the Crimson will attempt to defend its Easterns title the following weekend at Penn St. Cornell Coach Joe Lucia thinks this goal can be attained. "It should be a great meet, Lucia said. "I hope Harvard beats the scholarship schools and that the title stays in the league." As usual, the main competition will come from...
...idea for the conference stemmed from an era of insensitivity and outright hostility to minority concerns. In the past decade the Justice Department stopped actively seeking civil rights cases to prosecute, and instead dedicated itself to rolling back affirmative action and other minority gains. These attempts culminated in a recent Supreme Court decision which declared unconstitutional a Richmond program requiring 30 percent of the city's contracts to be awarded to minority contractors and thereby jeopardized all government-sponsored affirmative action programs...
THAT such a positive conference should be held at Harvard is especially a promising development. In recent months, accusations of insensitivity or outright racial harassment have been leveled across campus. The most disturbing trend has been the recent proliferation of racist grafitti on campus...
...foes of gun control, have lessened their opposition -- at least when it comes to paramilitary weapons. Deukmejian now calls for a 15-day waiting period for the purchase of assault rifles. Gates would apply the waiting period to purchases of all kinds of guns, and has called for an outright ban on paramilitary weapons. Says he: "We have been too tolerant. There is no need for citizens to have highly sophisticated military assault rifles designed for the sole purpose of killing people on the battlefield...
...there have been no outright takers, but a few colleges have negotiated deals that stop short of selling their independence. This spring Warner Pacific College, a small (enrollment: 400) church-affiliated school in Portland, Ore., is expected to approve the sale of 49% of its physical plant to Amvic International, a Japanese company that operates English-language schools in Japan. The $6 million price tag includes an agreement to lease the facilities to the college for 30 years and to make the firm's president a regent of the school. The transaction benefits both parties: Amvic's direct link with...