Word: drastically
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...classified or unclassified, but who openly support the administration's policy toward Vietnam, to qualify for boycott? It seems strange to exclude them; but again the line would be hard to draw for those who neither wholly support the conduct or the war nor are wholly committed to one drastic alternative. (It is unclear to me on which side of the line Professor Galbraith would be placed...
...country's inability to earn its own way in the world. The decision of the major powers not to devalue works to make the British move more effective, since a me-too devaluation by everybody would largely cancel out whatever benefits Britain hopes to reap from its drastic move...
...answer, suggests Davis, is a natural population growth rate of zero (births equal to deaths), "for any growth rate, if continued, will eventually use up the earth." Such a drastic reduction in births might require absolute government regulation of the size of families-a concept that most nations have found impossible to accept. In a more Orwellian guise, writes Davis, such control might include pressure through limits on availability of housing, manipulation of inflation to force mothers to work, increased city congestion by the deliberate neglect of transit systems, and increased personal insecurity through rigged unemployment...
...need for a reform of the Lords, and he was purposely vague last week about precise intentions for reform. He almost certainly will try to cut the Lords' delaying powers to a mere six months. He could assault the hereditary principle by a variety of means, including drastic instant denial of a seat to all hereditary peers. The House of Lords itself would remain, but might be limited in makeup to some 300 peers. Indicating that he meant business, Wilson at week's end appointed an interparty committee on reform of the Lords that will begin deliberating this...
When it comes to antismoking campaigns, the British government's has been no more successful than the U.S.'s. Though it has not imposed U.S.-style health warnings on cigarette packs, the Labor government took the drastic step of outlawing all cigarette commercials on television, last year persuaded cigarette manufacturers to limit other advertising as well. Nonetheless, half of all British adults remain on cigarettes, and the past two years have seen a steady increase in consumption among young people. Confronted with a tax-heavy price of 75? a pack, Britons seem largely indifferent to the health scare...