Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the July issue of Commerce Monthly, Italy's finances have recovered astoundingly under the drastic Fascist rule. Politics have been pretty thoroughly eliminated from the Italian Ministry of Finance. The deficit was estimated at 4,000,000,000 lire last November. The actual deficit will be only 1,000,000,000 lire...
While commerce and industry are experiencing their usual Summer slowdown, no little interest is expressed regarding the outlook for Fall. Two months ago opinion was practically unanimous that considerable activity would be witnessed in the Autumn. Since that time, however, the drastic liquidation in the stock market has created doubt...
...Chamber of Deputies passed to the Senate an ordinary budget, calling for an expenditure of $1,460,214,000, with an estimated revenue from all sources of $1,214,955,000, leaving a deficit of $245,259,000. The Senate Committee applied a drastic economy axe to all departmental budgets achieving a cut of $113,400,000. Revenue estimates were raised by $170,100,000 by increased taxation returns, larger contributions from French colonies such as Indo-China and Madagascar, the attachment to the budget of $3,780,000 from the Saar basin coal- mines, and $31,500,000 from...
...Perhaps such a nostrum is still effective. Perhaps by climbing to the house-tops to get as close as possible to the heat and, chanting a hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn of the gods, the New Englanders must once more grasp their fate in their own hands...
...teaching how to study will enable the dullards to get by. Many who go in for "cramming" retain their acquired information only just long enough acquired information only just long enough to use it in the examinations. It has to be hammered into their heads, and without such a drastic process would never get in at all. But it more attention were paid to helping students learn how to organize their studies, how to systematize and analyse their work, fewer men would resort to "cramming" schools and undergraduates would get out of their studies more than they...