Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a saddening blow. It is a most unfortunate world when a man must sacrifice the fulfillment of his great career in order to prove a point. In reality, however, I feel that in order to make his effort worthy of recognition in the eyes of the world, something drastic had to be done. The people of the U.S. are most fortunate to have him as their President...
...Gimmicks. In his most recent statements, however, Nixon has dropped his call for more drastic action against North Viet Nam, notably the mining of Haiphong harbor. Last month in New Hampshire, he gave rise to the secret-plan notion by giving his "pledge" that a new Administration would "end the war and win the peace in the Pacific." He conceded that he had no "pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks." He was merely making the quite obvious point that any new President would be under particular pressure to stop hostilities...
...obscure army officer three years ago, Suharto took command of the military after putting down a Communist coup attempt in 1965, then slowly began to take charge of the government. Indonesia first regarded his quiet but drastic moves as a necessary antidote to the grandiose, 22-year misrule of Sukarno. Initially diffident even about accepting the title of Acting President, Suharto finally decided that he needed the full title to give him the authority necessary to make reforms. Once decided, he used every tactic he could to get the title-including packing the assembly by replacing 200 old members...
...attack the basic prison problem - isolation from society the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice advocates a drastic shift to "community-based corrections." Two-thirds of all offenders are already being supervised outside the walls, on probation or parole. But probation is still widely regarded as clemency rather than treatment; only one-third of American courts have reasonably adequate probation staffs. Burdened with over 100 cases apiece, plus pre-sentence reports for judges, many probation officers can give offenders only ten or 15 minutes, once or twice a month. To cut average caseloads...
...government. These men are to be provided by the great Liberal Education Universities of America. Bundy spent a major portion of one Lecture urging students to acquire positions of great social power. It was to make government careers attractive to gifted people that he appealed for a "drastic upward movement" in the pay of senior government executives...