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...would mean significant and drastic cuts in our elementary schools and major programs or going to the city manager," she said. "And I was uncomfortable with both of those...
...Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are already dreaming up a variety of ingenious defenses against an incoming asteroid. Depending on its mass and composition, they would use tailor-made nuclear explosions to pulverize a small asteroid or deflect a larger one. Given enough time, and under the proper circumstances, less drastic measures would be needed. Some schemes call for conventional explosives alone, or anchoring a rocket motor or a solar sail on an asteroid to alter its orbit enough to allow it to safely bypass Earth...
...found guilty, the first step is for Jackson to find an appropriate punishment. All of the available remedies have benefits as well as costs. A "conduct remedy," in which Microsoft would continue to operate but would be under court order to refrain from certain practices, would be the least drastic measure but would raise the danger of continuous judicial monitoring of the software industry. Possible "structural remedies" include such as breaking up the company into separate divisions or licensing the Windows software to a number of different providers; both would provide a one-time solution rather than an endless loop...
...seek to leave their mark on the document that governs Harvard's student government, either by making drastic changes or preserving the status...
...spend what they don't actually have." Granted, spending against paper profits that may disappear with the next NASDAQ nosedive isn't exactly the stuff of sound personal finance, but will American investors' apparent flush of success be enough to spur the Fed chief into do something drastic - like once again raising interest rates? Count on it, says Kadlec. "Consumer spending indices hold a lot of weight with Greenspan," he explains. "As long as we see numbers like these, there's no relief in sight from incrementally rising interest rates." Once we've accepted the water torture-like inevitability...