Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grazing organisms as limpets and abalones are in the greatest danger. Even as he spoke, oil emulsified by the surf sank to the bottom, killing lobsters, sea urchins, mussels, clams and some fish. Inevitably, plants would prosper at the expense of animals. Said Neushul: "This could lead to a drastic ecological imbalance...
...Drastic Reorganization. Nixon's anticrime package, culled from previous studies, drew attention to vital but neglected court and rehabilitation procedures. It called for drastic reorganization of the District of Columbia judicial system by providing a single municipal court to handle all normal litigation and criminal prosecution. This would help eliminate lengthy delays in felony cases that have hitherto been tried in federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon...
Carrero is a complicated man; he is not a liberal, but he has not opposed the liberalizing measures of recent years. Nonetheless, he agreed with Gonzalez-Aller that drastic measures had indeed become necessary...
...total hysterectomy, removing the ovaries as well as the uterus, was a drastic procedure that upset a woman's hormonal balance and was a possible danger to her emotional balance as well...
...This is another disease supposedly eradicated 30 years ago, principally by adding vitamin D to milk. Though milk shipped abroad in U.S. food programs has long been required to have vitamin D additions, until last fall milk supplied in domestic welfare programs needed no such supplements. ¶ KWASHIORKOR, a drastic protein deficiency that has killed untold thousands of children in Biafra and scarred others with the hideous trademarks of hunger-large eyes and bloated bellies. Schaefer found seven U.S. cases. ¶ NIGHT BLINDNESS, a retinal malfunction caused by lack of vitamin A. Nearly a third of the children...