Word: drastically
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...fascination and dramatic attraction, transplantation cannot in the conceivable future offer relief for more than a minute proportion of heart-disease victims. It therefore invites attention to less drastic surgical and medical procedures now being developed or enormously improved, which give hope to far greater numbers (see final MEDICINE story...
...gold reserves have declined by almost half, to less than $12 billion, and foreign claims on U.S. gold have doubled, to $31.2 billion. If foreigners decided to redeem most of their dollars for gold, the U.S. could not meet its short-term obligations and would have to take drastic measures...
...cause a heavy loss of U.S. gold. Last month's unprecedented visit by Treasury Under Secretary Frederick Deming to a meeting in Basel of the Bank for International Settlements, a clubby group of bankers who pointedly exclude government officials, started frenzied rumors that the U.S. was proposing some drastic step. That set off another round of speculation, which, by expert estimate, cost the U.S. anywhere from $100 million to $400 million in gold. Who did all the buying? Mostly speculators, ranging from Middle Eastern sheiks and wealthy Latin Americans to some Americans who dodge U.S. restrictions on gold ownership...
Attacking the Symptoms. Nevertheless, the dollar's increasing exposure as the bastion of international monetary arrangements gave the President little choice but drastic action. Again and again since 1961, the Administration has promised that the dollar-weakening payments gap would be closed or greatly narrowed. Tinkering and tightening toward that end, the Government put a 15% tax on purchases of foreign securities by its own citizens, cut duty-free allowances on tourist purchases abroad, and finally imposed the "voluntary" curbs on bank loans and corporate investing. Balance, however, remained elusive and the cumulative deficit, after losses...
...feel, is one of the real dangers which permeates the problem. Marijuana is likely to be used, at least initially, as a lark, as an adventure without fear of serious consequences. Thus, the first and apparently innocuous step may be taken in a succession of others possibly leading to drastic results...