Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something Drastic. Yet the need for restraint remained tempered by a complex series of dilemmas. Even as U.S. warships steamed in the eastern Mediterranean to evacuate Americans from Lebanon if necessary, U.S. officials admitted that the U.S. role in the crisis had been eclipsed by the latest Arab initiatives. For the Lebanese, a political solution remained in the distance. Even with the latest attempt to establish a ceasefire, the basic issues between Lebanon's Moslems and Christians, so far from being resolved, have been intensified by the terrible bloodshed of recent weeks...
...with Israel. If there seems any strong danger of that, the Syrians could renew their military effort of last week. That, if successful, might finally succeed in imposing some kind of order in Lebanon. But it might also set the stage for, as one U.S. analyst put it, "something drastic happening": a further escalation in the fighting and the total disintegration of prospects for a political solution...
...expire on June 30, and Harvard will soon force many workers to survive on part-time wages over the summer. Thus, Harvard's attack on Gallagher, Balsam and Schaffer makes their strategy clear: crush all signs of militancy before the further aggravations of an insulting contract offer and a drastic reduction in income blow them into strike proportions, while purging the local of its leadership before contract negotations begin. As students depart for the summer, Harvard's anti-labor fist is poised for a decisive blow, and timed to provoke a minimum of public outcry. The solidarity of campus workers...
...developing. A growing number of companies-those producing such goods as chemicals, appliances and textiles, which are almost identical to those of their foreign competitors-are being hurt by the rising cost of their exports. Grundig AG, a consumer electronics maker already fighting cheap Japanese products, reports a drastic drop in sales to Britain and Italy. BASF, the giant chemicals producer, is paring prices and profit margins to hold its international markets...
...institutional money managers, many have nightmare memories of being stuck with blocks of stock bought at high multiples of earnings that they could unload only at a drastic loss. Some institutional analysts now question whether any stock should ever sell at a P/E higher than 25, however bright the company's prospects...