Word: drastically
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While the pension problems of private workers are serious, those of public employees can be drastic. Some local governments soon will reap the whirlwind from years of promising elaborate benefits while making insufficient contributions to pension kitties. The General Accounting Office watchdogs reviewed at random 72 state and local government pension plans and found that 53 of them failed to make contributions on the level required by the Federal Government of private corporations. Says Michael Thome, head of the California state teachers retirement system: "Pension costs have been pushed into the future for somebody else to pay. Now, that...
Brash young leaders with small offices and big dreams-these are the centurions of the movement that claims the title of America's New Right. Its general goals, a drastic reduction in domestic government activity and a hard anti-Communist line abroad, are familiar enough. So is its rhetoric. But the New Right has developed some fresh, effective tactics. It scored a few surprising electoral upsets last year, and now it smells blood...
Nyerere acknowledged that certain white minority rights should be guaranteed; but he also called for drastic revisions in the seven-month-old constitution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, which gives whites a disproportionate share of seats in the legislature and effective control of the armed forces, police, civil service and judiciary for five years. To the surprise of many delegates present, Mrs. Thatcher matched the African proposals, declaring that Britain was determined to achieve genuine majority rule in Salisbury and would take the primary responsibility for bringing it about. In fact, she and her Cabinet colleagues had worked out the Tory government...
...Administration still lacks a coherent policy or an effective advocate for it. Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams is a firm supporter, but he lacks the backing of the President and the other Georgians in the White House. After he was forced last spring by Congress to propose drastic cutbacks in Amtrak service at a time when ridership was climbing, Adams lost much of his standing with state and local transportation officials...
...City, Mich., has taken the theory a step further by performing double mastectomies on women who had no apparent signs of the disease but were judged prone to cancer because of family history, breast tissue characteristics and other clues. The key question: Are women who take this drastic step better off than others who simply wait...