Word: drastically
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What happened? Nothing drastic, nothing too unusual, in fact it happens every fall. It's just that it had never happened to Dave Mitts before...
...more important to perfect existing institutions than to create new ones. Some suggested that today is such a period. Arthur Okun, 47, chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers (now a member of TIME'S Board of Economists), suggested that Americans are not looking for drastic changes but "the kind of changes Detroit makes from one year to another in its car models...
...into a bitter election campaign; though there has been talk of a national coalition government, both Tories and Laborites now seem set against it. The outcome could be a Tory government pledged to spending cuts that, according to Prime Minister Callaghan, would plunge the nation into social turmoil, or drastic cuts in British imports and the standard of living decreed by a government of whatever political complexion...
...submitted a list of 575 witnesses it plans to call-suggesting that the trial is being staged as a courtroom spectacular that could last for months. Presumably the government is hoping to demonstrate, through testimony, that the threat of subversion justified Mrs. Gandhi 16 months ago in her drastic curtailment of civil rights...
...forbid!) has a homely wife or less than bright children? The day seems not far off when he will be barred from running. Should families skulk back to the home or suppress their need (if it exists) to express themselves? That is one possibility. But even short of such drastic action, it might be useful to remember that it is the candidate who is running for the presidency. He is the one America wants to measure...