Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become so bad that even the tourists and the women have begun to catch on. Alarmed by the falling attendance, Minister of Tourism Manuel Fraga Iribarne is calling for "a re-evaluation to retrieve bullfighting from crisis." Without some drastic changes soon, Spain's most famous spectacle may eventually disappear. You said as much yourself 37 years ago, Papa: "There are two things that are necessary for a country to love bullfights. One is that the bulls must be raised in that country and the other that the people must have an interest in death." You never foresaw...
...agrees with all six of the original SDS demands, and says that those who occupied the building had a right to do so. "You can reach back to when this nation was formed," he says. "Means were necessary to accomplish certain objectives. The objectives of the students warranted relatively drastic means. And remember, the occupation of a building is an essentially non-violent form of exercising one's point of view. In judging the appropriateness of this means, consider the example of the rise of the unions--it is the doctrine of countervailing power...
Inside the occupied territories, Arab shopkeepers in the town of Nablus closed their stores in symbolic mourning of the 21st anniversary of Israel's founding.-But the fedayeen guerrillas have failed notably to stir the populace to more drastic forms of resistance. In the Gaza Strip, a series of eight grenades exploded in crowded marketplaces, injuring 36 Arabs-evidently terrorist punishment for collaboration with the Israelis...
...first-year students met Saturday for two hours and voted 59-30 with 23 abstentions to "deplore the hasty actions of the University hierarchy in its indiscriminate use of violence before all reasonable alternatives had been thoroughly pursued and several members of the University consulted in this drastic action...
...action on the part of the individual at the grass roots ever really be effective? It all depends on how we design our society. We must, for example, undertake a drastic overhaul of local government...