Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign could have demanded such conciliatory measures, then taken credit for them when they came. But it did not, scorning Bayard Rustin's earlier list of reasonable, attainable goals. Instead, the Southern Christian Leadership Council's inner circle running the campaign demanded drastic change in America's economic system, including blanket income guarantees to the poor. No such metamorphosis in the welfare system could occur without long, acrimonious debate. To the end, S.C.L.C. leaders refused to demand anything the Government could give under present circumstances. Instead, they snapped at any outstretched Administration hand. By week...
...supporters voted for him in the expectation that he would live up to his promises to bring about sweeping changes in France's archaic institutions. Stricken by inflationary wage settlements, France's economy has been seriously weakened; and De Gaulle has been forced to resort to drastic measures to protect its ailing industries (see BUSINESS). The country has recently lost $1 billion in foreign exchange. Unemployment is rising, and some people in Paris are already saying "Ça va recommencer en octobre"-"The whole thing will begin again in October." They mean the barricades, the street fighting...
...television did-that they were unable to keep up with sales. Now one bottleneck has been solved with increased production of picture tubes and another by stepping up the output of cabinets. But if anything goes wrong with the set, the owner will soon discover that there is a drastic shortage of people...
...were back at work, and the Sorbonne was calm again after Paris police dislodged the occupying young revolutionaries. Even so, France felt the severe economic consequences of the disorders. Rising food costs have already canceled out much of the 12% to 14% wage hikes that the strikers won. A drastic fall-off in tourism (some hotels report bookings down 50%) means more economic squeezes ahead...
Something Drastic. At the meeting, the company credibility gap was hardly improved when Chairman Melvin W. Alldredge insisted that the absent Jay had retired merely "because of personal reasons." With "such an aura of mystery," complained one disbelieving stockholder, "it must have been something fairly drastic." There were some rather drastic statistics to consider. During A. &P.'s first 1968 quarter, which closed just seven days before Jay exited, profits plummeted 21 % below the 1967 first quarter. Moreover, Alldredge conceded, there was no sign of "any significant change" ahead...