Word: drastically
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Sanders' entrance produced a drastic alteration of attitudes, yet one thing remains the same. While the constant pressure Harrison exerted on his players in hopes of creating victories no longer fills the sweaty air of the IAB, there is now no pressure whatsoever on the players. As junior guard Jonas Honick stated, "Sanders lets us get away with murder. He gave, and we took...
...economy. The tiny island country (pop. 219,000) wants more control over fishing rights in its coastal areas to maintain fish stocks, especially cod. Sales of cod account for fully 40% of Iceland's exports, but this vital crop could vanish in a few years, Icelanders claim, unless drastic conservation measures are taken. Even British officials concede that cod stocks are dwindling, but argue that the situation is not so perilous as Iceland says...
...incomes below the federal poverty level in 1970. The recent recession had a devastating impact on Puerto Rico: unemployment is officially 20%, but unofficially admitted to be 35%. Even when employment is available, the average industrial wage, $2.29, is half the comparable figure for U.S. workers. Despite this drastic crisis, those Puerto Ricans suffering the most have undertaken little organized protest, perhaps because welfare benefits and federal food stamps (three-quarters of the population is eligible) keep them alive...
...about as far as any Labor Chancellor could ever be expected to go. Nonetheless, the Confederation of British Industries denounced the program as "too little, too late." Tory Shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe called it "a devastating admission of the government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic. "Mr. Healey...
...advocate the use of "intuition" is to advocate no specific policies unless one is willing to provide an ideology to direct the intuition. A radical's intuitive approach to Harvard admissions might prescribe a drastic cut in the number of preppies admitted to make more spaces available to minority students; the intuition of some of Aldrich's fellow alumni might lead to the selection of sons of men just like themselves--cultured, upper-crust, white. Aldrich neglects to name the brand of intuition he favors, but his rhetoric reveals his predilections. Discussing student opposition to master's choice, he writes...