Word: drastically
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...officers. The Police Association objected, as one might have expected, to Gorski's imposition of a hiring freeze and to his brusque manner in shaking up what once had been a very comfortable department. But the union also had a new gripe; the changes, they said, were so drastic that they lowered morale in the force. Letteri and Henry Wise '18, the union's attorney, made the issue a key factor in contract negotiations last winter, saying they would not discuss monetary issues until the University came up with a solution to the "morale question." Harvard did: Gorski announced...
...remedy that poverty, All Our Children proposes nothing less than an over haul of America's economic structure, from welfare and taxes to health care. Although proposals such as "flexible hours"-in which employees would determine their own daily schedules-would require drastic readjustments by private industry, the report focuses primarily on what government action is needed. Among the specific recommendations...
...year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest or both." As an antidote to such outrages, the book urges consumers to drill their dentists on basic subjects like costs, procedures and alternatives before submitting to anything more drastic than a tooth cleaning...
...psychological and material destitution despite 20 years of civil rights gains and 13 years of antipoverty programs that were only temporarily slowed, but never really hobbled, during the Nixon era. Tens of billions of dollars are spent every year by the Federal Government, states and cities to eliminate drastic poverty. In addition, special hiring drives, private job-training programs, university scholarships and affirmative-action programs are aimed at aiding the motivated poor. Yet by most of society's measures?job prospects, housing, education, physical security?the underclass is hardly better off, and in some cases worse off, than before...
...that call for a more than 20% cut in both superpowers' strategic arsenals reflected Carter's determination, as National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says, "not merely to put a hold on the arms race, but to obtain increasingly significant reductions." The Soviets, however, viewed Carter's proposal for drastic cuts as one-sided, as a threat to their military security and as a violation of the established mode of U.S.-Soviet diplomacy. It was a mistake for Vance to spring a sharp revision of the weapons ceilings, which had been approved by Ford and Brezhnev at the 1974 Vladivostok summit...