Word: drastically
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Putting on the Brakes. Though many economists and businessmen considered the drastic measure necessary to check the speed of economic expansion, it has several negative aspects-apart from the extra tax wallop. At a time when job opportunities for the poor must be broadened, unemployment may increase as a result of belt tightening by both Government and private enterprise. With contracts in the steel, shipping and aerospace industries due to expire in the next few months, a wave of serious strikes could brake the economy further. Nor is the rate of consumer-price increases likely to decline for several months...
That solution is probably far too drastic. Some 20 million Americans are hunters, and though accidents kill up to 800 of them each year, few would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
...these, 768, or 68 per cent will receive honors: 215 cum laude in general studies, 302 cum laude in a special field, 198 magna cum laude, 11 magna cum laude with highest honors and 42 summa cum laude. These proportions are as usual and last year's drastic drop in summas awarded (there were only 25 then) has not been repeated...
...then there was Columbia. A few days later, RUS president Debbie Batts wrote the administration a finely-worded letter. In effect, she warned that it would now be difficult to dissuade Radcliffe students from feeling that the only way to change things was by such drastic measures...
...issue apparently boiled down to "Why not?" Master Pappenheimer's subcommittee reported a week ago that Harvard was far behind comparable colleges in its social regulations. Moreover, drastic parietal extensions at schools such as Wellesley have not altered the nature of residence halls noticeably, nor have they disrupted the weekday academic functions of the undergraduates...