Word: drastically
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...more help last week when European producers, meeting in Rome, proposed to set voluntary limits on their sales in the U.S. The Japanese steel industry had made a similar proposal two weeks earlier. American steelmen mostly see the offers as politically inspired attempts to avert more drastic U.S. action against steel and other imports, but the offers nonetheless indicate that the foreign producers realize they may have been pressing their competitive advantage a bit too hard...
...idea--originally Richard Nixon's--is a good one as far as it goes, even though the suburban and Sunbelt-biased formula for distributing the funds was in drastic need of the reform provided last week by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1977. The Act shifts more money to decaying older cities and establishes an Urban Development Action Grant Program to aid the economic development of downtown areas...
...were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaking for 70,000 member businesses, and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, which includes 118 farm and marketing co-ops and 3.5 million farmers. These groups had one overriding concern: they did not want a repetition of last winter's drastic shortage of natural...
...Restrictions on the range of air-launched cruises will be omitted from the main body of a SALT II accord, but will appear in a separate protocol that will probably run for three years. Then the U.S., which opposed a drastic curb on cruise range, may have the right to upgrade its cruises, if necessary, to maintain their deterrent value (primarily their ability to penetrate Russian air defenses...
Carter is most likely to accept a recommendation that only half the price of a business meal may be treated as a legitimate expense and thus deducted from a company's pretax income. And that is the least drastic of three alternatives he is considering. Another is to set a limit on deductions of $15 a person per meal...