Word: drastic
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...found. It is discouraging to consider how many years must pass before the people of the United States will recognize and set upon the simple principles of justice and equality about which they can speak so glibly. Yet this evolutionary process, while not so soul satisfying as more drastic, quicker methods, is the one which will eventually result in giving a new and better meaning to the basic principles which are embodied in the 14th amendment...
Doughty Premier Robert Schuman's government had beaten the Communist "insurrection" (TIME, Dec. 8). Last week it survived its second major test. The test came over Schuman's drastic measures to fight French inflation...
...three telephone calls, made in time, would have cleared [it] up." But by the time it had reached the policy level of the State Department, whose lower levels should have caught it first, it was not that easy. The whole system of U.N. accreditation, the U.S. felt, needed "drastic revision...
Signed by the Politburo's Andrei Zhdanov, the decree was Soviet Socialism's drastic move to control inflation by issuing new money and setting up a system of pegged commodity prices to replace rationing...
Lesson for Free Traders. The devaluation was the most spectacular move in a drastic governmental program to end Italy's wild inflation. The author and guiding head of the plan is famed Economist Luigi Einaudi, 73, a frail, dry man who sometimes sounds as dull as the retired professor that he is. But as Vice Premier, Minister of the Budget and Governor of the Bank of Italy, he has put an unprofessorial wallop into his actions. Although he is one of Italy's outstanding apostles of unfettered free enterprise, Einaudi has not hesitated to fight inflation with hard...