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...press about issues, so in effect, this restriction prevented outsider candidates from communicating with voters. All candidates should be free to announce their intentions whenever they see fit, and the council must revise its bylaws to give everyone this freedom, as well as eliminate the potential for future drastic reinterpretations...
This game as it is played now is silly. There is talk of BU finally sponsoring a Division I team when the construction of its new arena is finished in 2004-05. If BU fails to come through, however, more drastic action must be taken to bring parity to the next scheduled Harvard-BU Beanpot matchup in three years...
Last spring, the committee settled on a stringent set of regulations, including a drastic cut in permitted building height on the most controversial site, the Mahoney’s Garden Center plot—from 120’ to 24?...
...special needs. Until recently the business world's primary response was to pitch diets, workouts and potions to those determined to melt off the pounds. The weight-loss market grew to about $40 billion last year, from $33 billion in 1999, according to Marketdata Enterprises of Tampa, Fla. Even drastic measures are catching on. Last year 63,100 obese patients--including celebrities like Today show weatherman Al Roker--underwent surgery to have their stomach capacity reduced, an increase from 23,000 such operations...
...Then, last week, events took a surprising turn. Mardiyanto, in an informal meeting with his critics under the shade of a magnificent banyan tree near the stupa, professed amazement at the vehemence of opposition to his proposal and offered to postpone it. In a drastic departure from standard procedure in this rigidly hierarchical nation, the governor invited the people of Borobudur to draw up their own plan. Immediately after General Mardiyanto called retreat, the opposition seemed giddy, almost stunned by its victory. But suspicion soon crept in that this might be a ruse. One young firebrand told...