Word: drastically
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Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake's Cabinet decided on drastic measures to recoup some of the loss. These include ending state subsidies on such staples as bread and butter, longtime features of New Zealand's elaborate welfare system. Taxes on gasoline, tobacco and liquor have gone up. The nation's imports and bank loans have been curtailed, and down payments for installment buying increased...
...drastic change in the family. At least so thinks Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who foresees "a new style with an emphasis on very small families and a high toleration of childless marriage or a more encompassing social style in which parenthood would be limited to a smaller number of families whose principal function would be child rearing; the rest of the population would be free to function-for the first time in history-as individuals." This will result from worldwide birth control and the "massive failure" of the present family setup (as evidenced by "adolescent rebellion cults, overt and aggressive male...
...Attorney General Tom Clark persuaded Harry Truman to grant him broader powers in the use of electronic eavesdropping gadgets. Now, 20 years later, another Attorney General named Clark has ordered a drastic curtailment of the use of bugging and wiretapping in investigations by federal agencies. This Clark is Tom's son Ramsey...
...Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger shares the widely held view that the roots of the downturn can be traced to an orgy of overspending by the governments of Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard. To restore public confidence, Kiesinger's seven-month-old coalition regime last week finally reached for drastic measures that will put the budget in better balance and then, the government hopes, help push the economy back up the mountain...
...Carnovsky has been dressed in a blue blazer and grey flannels. When he realizes he is not winning and that more drastic tactics are needed, he doffs his blazer and carries on the fight in sweater and shirtsleeves. In the end he loses not only Antigone, but also his son Haemon and his wife Eurydice. Now he is alone, and has only the living death of a cabinet meeting to look forward to. It is a touching moment when he tells his little page, winningly played by Billy Partello, "Never grow up if you can help...