Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catches on, it may cut into Stevens's profit margin; in this case, the old adage, "money talks," is unfortunately apropos. More likely, though, the boycott will succeed in bringing broad-based political pressure to bear on recalcitrant executives; it might even force the government to take more drastic action in enforcing...
...constitutes something of a victory for Carter's economic advisers-and for reality-over his political counselors, who have been arguing that anything the President might do about inflation would offend powerful constituencies. Nonetheless, the speech would probably be no bombshell. Rather than outline a comprehensive, drastic policy, Carter was expected to announce a series of small but symbolic, and concrete, steps that the Government would take in order to set an example of anti-inflationary restraint for the rest of the nation. Some probable highlights of the talk: > A pledge to hold the federal budget for fiscal...
Carter's plans could scarcely be called either a drastic or a comprehensive program. Cartoonists already are comparing Carter's anti-inflation approach to Gerald Ford's ineffective WIN (for Whip Inflation Now) program - an overly ballyhooed melange of tax recommendations and pleas for restraint in buying that was quickly scuttled because of the deepening recession. But the outlines of Carter's plan, if they hold, do at least constitute a useful recognition that the Government must begin any attack on inflation by getting its own house in order...
Third, what kind of society would emerge as a result of the election? By the Left, the French were offered different yet equally drastic schemes for change. The Communists and the Socialists agreed on the need for greater state control of the economy, and for a massive shift of resources from the wealthy to the poor. The Socialists, in addition, proposed governmental decentralization and steps toward workers' self-management...
...that further howling about the stupidity of this proposal can only win them a better deal. So despite the generosity of the president's plan, Carter hit the bull's eye when he predicted that "still they want more." Perhaps if he had threatened the companies with something more drastic they would have been more willing to compromise on price regulation. However, as events have developed, both the House and Senate versions of Carter's proposal are even more lenient than the original bill. Both give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, which sounds like several obscene words, all misspelled...