Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Syrian hamsters accounted for only a few thousand of the more than 43 million rodents used in scientific research last year, Homborger said. The association hopes that a drastic increase in the hamsters' use will enhance the effectiveness of cancer and other research...
...While the latest raises also had congressional approval, their across-the-board nature hardly re-establishes the President's image as a careful minder of the Government till. In any event, one former aide had an explanation for the pay boost: "People realize that they will take a drastic pay cut if they lose their jobs. What it adds up to is a backhanded way of building loyalty...
However, Washington is opposed to economic sanctions-a far more drastic step that it believes would be counterproductive. The Administration's goal is an arms embargo subject to renewal by the Security Council every six months. The hope is that such a resolution would persuade Pretoria to ease the strictures of apartheid and repression. Young gained the support of the other Western members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Canada and West Germany) for a carefully worded resolution that would impose the arms sanctions and also brand South Africa "a threat to international peace and security." With the help...
...based on the assumption that agoraphobia is a habit to be broken. Treatment consists of gradually exposing the phobic patient to feared sit uations, first by having him imagine them, then by forcing him, for instance, to take longer and longer solo walks until the stress disappears. A more drastic technique, similar to throwing a baby into a pool to teach it how to swim, is known as "implosion"?a patient might be driven to a large empty field and left there for hours to cope with his fears. The theory is that terror drains away once...
...September night in the last days of a frantic pennant race and Yankee Manager Billy Martin tossed in his bed, looking for ways to get even with his boss. For a moment, still thinking like the street fighter he used to be, he had a drastic idea. He would walk right up to Owner George Steinbrenner, insult him and goad the boss into striking him. Too wild, he decided. If only Steinbrenner would stop sending those foolish statistics down to the dugout during the game, stop pushing him so hard to discipline the players. Discipline, Martin thought...