Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First-year coach Carole Kleinfelder has made the drastic turnaround in so short a time with the help of some very talented freshmen. The dynamic duo of Karyn Curry and Ellen Hart are the freshmen ball-handlers who have provided the Radcliffe scoring punch...
Strong rebuttals quickly came forth from anti-racist faculty and students, who sensed that the Jensen-Herrnstein doctrines would soon be used to justify sweeping attacks on open admissions, affirmative action, and school integration, and drastic cutbacks in health care, education, and welfare spending. Thus, the Committee Against Racism (CAR) was formed in 1972. A multiracial organization, CAR recognized that this new wave of racism would first attack minorities but soon would hurt whites as well. CAR circulated a resolution condemning the new I.Q. theories as unscientific and racist. CAR defined as racist a doctrine which legitimates racial oppression...
...authorities were moving fast on their own. Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp ordered all of his state's schools closed. The National Guard was called out to help remove snow in Buffalo; even a local course in arctic survival techniques was canceled because of the weather. Maryland ordered a drastic reduction in all business uses of natural gas. Heating costs soared in New England, where poor residents of Providence sought emergency loans from a $400,000 state fund to help pay their fuel bills...
...from foreign governments. Arab oil states were prepared to advance $2 billion, and the U.S. $1 billion. In return, the contributors and the International Monetary Fund had insisted that Egypt devalue its pound and cut subsidies to conserve funds for capital investment. Premier Salem had responded that such drastic cuts would provoke violent reactions. He turned out to be right...
...Drastic problems demand drastic cures. The Greeks' current plan is to remove all the remaining sculpture and install it in a yet unbuilt museum at the base of the Acropolis. The bare patches will be filled with fiber-glass replicas, made by the British Museum-which, thanks to Lord Elgin, already has the better part of the Parthenon's original friezes. As for the stones, the rusty iron clamps and rods will have to be extracted and replaced in what one UNESCO expert calls "a gigantic root-canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism...