Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fearsome Specter. More drastic were the objections of a few eminent cardiologists at the San Francisco meeting. New Orleans' Dr. George E. Burch, the college's new president, joined Los Angeles' Dr. Eliot Corday and Manhattan's Dr. Simon Dack in calling for at least a three-month moratorium on heart transplants. The college's outgoing president, Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff, announced a conference of leading physicians, lawyers and theologians, to be held late this month in Bethesda, Md., to discuss the legal, ethical and practical aspects of transplants. And then there...
These are the statistics of failure--a failure as drastic as it is widespread. The immediate reason for the failure is, of course, the increase in the birth rate along with the fall in the death rate. But this does not explain the problem, since almost all countries with critical illiteracy problems have introduced compulsory elementary education. In fact, such laws are usually among the first passed when a former colony gains independence...
...Drastic Turnover. Other dilemmas face Clifford, notably how extensive an anti-ballistic missile system to recommend and what to do about the continued deployment of 200,000 U.S. troops in Europe in the light of balance of payments problems and manpower shortages elsewhere...
Human Factors. Among lawyers and judges, alimony abolishment is considered obviously too drastic. But there is widespread agreement on one major reform: replacing guilt by need as the operative factor in determining how much an ex-wife should receive...
...blue bits with the relish of a nightclub comic shocking an audience of miniskirted grandmothers. It is totally irrelevant that the setting of the novel is England; despite its slapstick, Cocksure is well within the American mode of contemporary black humor that U.S. Critic Kenneth Burke has called "the drastic irony of paranoia...