Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Realism. The need for drastic economic change became painfully evident in the mid-1950s, when Stalinist-tailored war economies - with their stress on heavy industry to the exclusion of consumer desires - began to cause widespread discontent. Yugoslavia was the first to move, after its break with the Kremlin in 1948, introducing a system of decentralized planning and establish ing "workers' councils" as co-managers of its factories. In 1956, Poland's "bread and freedom" riots in Poznan triggered reforms that - on paper, at least - far outdistanced Yugoslavia...
...where the play stops because seven of the company are struck with botulism) is magnificent and hilarious because the whole company, especially Beck and Jamie Rosenthal (playing a Miss Somerset playing Sabina, George Antrobus' maid and quondam mistress) degenerates from high flown symbols to grumbling Loebies. The switch is drastic and devastating...
This is not a triumph for "consensus politics," but a dangerous split that restricts America's foreign policy. The Administration runs the risk of "escalated frustration." As long as the war drags on, both "hawks" and "doves" become increasingly disappointed and call for increasing drastic measures. The split between them widens, and the Administration, seeking to accommodate both sides, continues to vacillate...
...drastic measures will cut consumption and restrain an economy that has been living beyond its means, thus helping to stabilize the pound. Or so the government hopes. On the other hand, there may be dangerous side effects. British auto sales abroad are the country's biggest earner of foreign exchange, brought home $2.2 billion last year. Because of the sharp drop in sales at home, British automakers may well have to raise their export prices to uncompetitive levels or sell their cars abroad at a loss. In any case, the leading exporter, British Ford, expects that this year Britain...
...civic zeal and his personal flair for the good life on a 200-acre Connecticut estate and at his Florida mansion, Gimbel was more than anything else a shrewd merchant. He was hardly out of the University of Pennsylvania and into the Philadelphia Gimbels store before he was pushing drastic changes on his father and six uncles. The family business had started in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked out a $9,000,000 site...