Word: drastically
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...White House view was that nothing very drastic was happening. A Soviet diplomat in Europe asked an American journalist last week, "Is your President getting nervous?" The answer, simply, was no. Said one of Carter's close advisers: "He's trying to avoid being too concerned about whether the detente index is up point four or down point...
...part, Carter failed to anticipate the vehemence of Moscow's response to his human rights preachments and his public plan for a "drastic" weapons reduction. Brezhnev seems to be determined not to have a summit unless he can get an acceptable SALT agreement or at least force Carter to quiet down on human rights. U.S. officials no longer expect a SALT deal before the current treaty expires at midnight Oct. 2. Contingency arrangements are being considered in Washington, among them a simple, initialed agreement to extend the existing treaty...
They were gods in Egypt. Some two millenniums before the birth of Christ, cats were buried with the pomp of pharaohs, hi bronze coffins and mausoleums complete with mummified mice for delectation hi the afterlife. A drastic decline from this lordly state occurred when the early Christian church decided that the feline was a pagan minion of Satan intimately connected to wicked deeds of darkness. In pictures of the Last Supper, for example, the "bad cat" of Christendom sits at Judas' feet...
...people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers, who fear that their language and culture are gradually being overwhelmed on their home ground by English. Thus Lévesque has embarked on a drastic program to legislate the language of everyday life in Quebec - meaning parlez français for everyone...
Every summer, the building at 14 Plympton St. that houses The Crimson goes through a couple of drastic changes...