Word: drastically
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...trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff's deepest hope is to show the Latin American church, beset by declining prestige and a drastic shortage of priests, that he has not forgotten it. "All the roads of the world," said he, "are open to the ministry of the Pope...
...country have gratefully adopted Mace, a chemical stun gas in a pressurized can, as a means of coping with rioters and unruly suspects. Used as recommended (from at least 3 ft. away, in 1-sec. bursts), it causes temporary loss of vision and inability to move-effects far less drastic than those of a club or a .38-cal. bullet...
...decision to call in the police, said Columbia President Grayson Kirk, was "the most painful one I have ever made." Although the need for some drastic action to end the impasse was due partly to Kirk's own vacillation in handling the student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...list of 11 demands--formulated by MAT students over the last two weeks--aims at promoting a drastic increase in Ed School involvement with urban problems, and at providing broad student controls over the MAT program's administration...
...past four years, the Harvard sports scene has undergone a facelift. Nothing drastic, mind you, but enough alterations have been made to make today's scene far different from the one I first encountered as a freshman, three and a half years ago. The headline-grabbing sports, football and hockey, have multi-flexed their way into mediocrity the past two years, and every indication points to them staying there for at least a while. Squash hasn't won a national championship in two years, which is like a ten-year drought for anyone else, swimming and baseball are only...