Word: drastically
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...when the United States was frantically racing to develop the atomic bomb, there was no time to debate the risks of nuclear power. We are now faced with experimentation that could have the same drastic consequences, but the situation is far different. There is time to discuss and evaluate. The Cambridge Review Board should not throw that time away...
Treasury Secretary William Simon last year made the most drastic tax-reform proposal of all. He would "wipe the slate clean of personal tax preferences, special deductions and credits, exclusions from income and the like." By his reckoning, the Government could then slash tax rates by almost a third with no loss of revenue...
Early in the campaign, Carter liked the drastic Simon tax reforms. Lately, however, he has voiced more modest goals. Carter apparently has no intention of ending the tax exemption for income from state and municipal bonds, which costs the U.S. Treasury about $4 billion a year. He would also continue the deduction for charitable contributions. But he would eliminate the capital-gains exclusion, which amounts to about $7 billion each year and chiefly benefits high-income taxpayers...
...difficulty lies in the two drastic sea changes the word liberal has undergone. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it meant laissez-faire. One of the Commentary contributors, William F. Buckley, quotes Woodrow Wilson as saying that the history of liberalism is the history of man's efforts to restrain the growth of government. Franklin Roosevelt, of course, gave liberal its new meaning: the use of what has become Big Government to redress society's inequities. Herbert Hoover objected not only to F.D.R.'s policies but also to his theft of the word liberal. Barry Goldwater...
Although he hasn't made any drastic cutbacks, Fraser has stated his opposition to many of the Whitlam administration's programs. He has modified the health insurance plan to make it more attractive for the wealthy to subscribe to private insurance. He has attempted to cut back on the number of welfare recipients. He pushed for unions to accept wage increases below the cost of living. Cuts in educational spending and urban development are expected...