Word: drastically
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THREE months ago, after police stormed the campus of Brasilia University, Congressman Marcio Moreira Alves rose in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies and urged his countrymen to boycott Independence Day military parades to show their disapproval. Last week that seemingly insignificant act led to some startlingly drastic consequences for South America's biggest, most populous nation. The government imposed censorship on the country's radio and press, put the armed forces on alert, sent tanks rumbling down Rio de Janeiro's broad Avenida Brasil and, finally, suspended Brazil's constitution and shut down its Congress...
...ligaments deteriorate rapidly. When he operated on Sayers, Dr. Theodore Fox, the Bears' team physician, took the "duck's foot" muscles, normally located slightly above the inside of the knee, and bound them around the ligaments for added support; Hanratty's injury did not require such drastic measures. But both men look forward to a long convalescence. Six weeks in a cast is standard, followed by months of tedious exercise. Eventually, Hanratty and Sayers will be able to play again-but how well...
...plan to the Yale Corporation only a few days before he made the announcement. The faculty got only a few hours' notice. Brewster was acting in haste, he said, because he felt that a trial would be far more instructive than "further abstract study." It is a "drastic move," he admitted, but one which, if carried out "with style and quality," will put "Yale in a position to enhance greatly its contribution to the generations ahead...
...last week Xerox's stock had fallen a drastic 18¼ points since the September announcement, costing the company's investors a paper loss of $400 million and reflecting a widespread notion that a link with solid but unspectacular C.I.T. could only tarnish Xerox as a glittering growth stock. At any rate, there were palpable signs of stockholder relief when the deal was finally dropped. In the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the announcement, Xerox was bid up 6½ points to $277.25 a share...
Master Bruce Chalmers of Winthrop House, who made the suggestion, said parietals "are no longer a controversial or emotional issue. The drastic change was made a year ago." Other supporters of the move implied that the University would not be making a drastic or revolutionary move by eliminating visitation restrictions which, they claim, are not being enforced anyway...