Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent parity or we'll have to be back next year," an Alabaman said last month. One way to gain parity, farmers feel, is to keep a contingent of demonstrators in Washington until the government grants the price increase. If this does not work, many plan a more drastic move: They will plow under their fields. This, they believe, will be their most effective action: it is the last card up their sleeve...
...area's needs, and wants to continue to do so. The dependency helps bind the otherwise restless Poles, Czechs, East Germans and Hungarians to the U.S.S.R. At home, some conservation measures have been introduced, but the Kremlin would be unwilling to risk the unrest that might come from drastic cutbacks in government plans to expand industry and raise living standards. Abroad, oil sales enable the Russians to buy the latest technology needed to step up economic development, including the improvement of drilling methods, and to buy grain when their own harvests fall short...
That seems a rather drastic devaluation. Kodak, which has spent more than $2 billion on research and development during the past decade, is still a prime moneymaker. In the first nine months of 1977 it earned profits of $417.3 million, down slightly from $429 million a year earlier, but Kodak's pretax operating profit is a lofty 26? of each sales dollar...
...much as the step-by-inexorable-step Communist advance on power. But elections would doubtless be a trauma that neither Communist nor Christian Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy can be counted on to add their own strident note of urgency...
...then that I realized that I didn't have to change in any drastic way to be an activist. My decision to march that day was almost an unconscious one, motivated by my desire to do something, no matter how small, to show that I cared. I was still my apolitical self, still poorly read on the issues, so if I was at all radical, it was because other people, non-demonstrators, saw me that way. I hadn't changed my opinion of myself at all. I only felt better, because I was involved. For me, the transition was wonderfully...