Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. About a year ago Russia made a drastic cut in her imports from Persia, which were then about 60,000,000 rubles annually, while Soviet exports amounted to only 20,000,000 rubles. Persia then boycotted Russian goods, threatened to build a railway from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, in order to "make them independent of the Russian market." Both sides suffered in the economic conflict and AH Ghuli Khan, one-time Ambassador at Moscow, was sent early in the year to negotiate the above treaty...
...even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement in the face of already drastic odds against tricky Frenchmen who will not honor a contract and hold to it after signing. Then too he has felt uncomfortable about landing in his own New York and now plans to land in Philadelphia. Is that fair...
...Signor Mussolini became Premier, five years ago, he found building at a standstill, due to the restrictions imposed by previous regimes upon landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value...
...quite to realize that they were only "proving" the sort of thing which most British and U. S. businessmen have unshakably believed about the Soviets for half a decade. There was nothing new, and nothing especially terrifying. How then were these stale "proofs" worthy to justify the new and drastic course of breaking off relations...
...drastic measure designed to throttle and paralyze the trade unions should they ever attempt a repetition of the General Strike (TIME...