Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wangle the loan, which was necessary to prevent default, city and state officials were forced to take drastic actions that went against many a past promise. For the most highly taxed city in the country, the state legislature passed a $200 million increase that includes a 25% raise in the city income tax as well as higher levies on corporations, banks, barber shops, beauty and massage parlors and inheritances. Also approved was a three-year moratorium on the redemption of $1.6 billion in city short-term debt held by individuals...
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This may seem a drastic statement--especially to my brothers, teachers, old friends, faithful dog and so on. But look at the evidence: One of my earliest memories is of asking my mother to explain the E.B. White/Carl Rose cartoon: "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." (That caption, by the way, is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.) Other memories: we are all working in the garden. Someone holds up a piece of our all-too-tenacious ivy and cries "Watch out Fred, here it comes again!" My dog announces...
...photo said by critics to resemble the two former CIA employees shows drastic differences in features...
...aides were with him, organizing arguments against the Defense Department taking as big a share of Ford's promised $28 billion expense reductions as the President wanted. At 9:45, the green light flashed; Schlesinger had called Ford to ask if he could explain some of the dangers of drastic cuts. Ford agreed...