Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time is running out. Rohatyn warned that without federal help, New York may have to default by December. That would ruin the city's credit, force a drastic cutback in services and probably cause an exodus of major corporations. Said he: "The flow of blood would be irreversible...
...situation wasn't always this drastic. Even at this time last year, most observers, including Harvard administrators, expected that the whole Kennedy complex--comprising a library, museum and the Kennedy School of Government affiliated with the Institute of Politics, would be built in the MBTA subway yards across the street from Eliot House...
Died. Dr. Irwin M. Stillman, 79, co-author of The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet (1967) and other bestselling weight-control guides, whose drastic prescription for obesity-quick shedding of excess pounds through an extreme highprotein, low-carbohydrate regimen-brought him a wide following as well as much criticism from more conventional nutrition experts; of a heart attack; in North Miami...
...Weight. First, the antinuclear forces released an open letter to the President and Congress. Signed by 2,300 "members of the American technical community"-engineers, doctors and scientists, including nine Nobel laureates-it urged "a drastic reduction in new nuclear plant construction." Reason: there are still too many unanswered questions about the safety of atomic power plants, the disposal of radioactive wastes and the difficulties of safeguarding plutonium. Rather than take these nuclear risks, the scientists advised the Federal Government to: 1) start a strict energy conservation program; 2) develop nonpolluting ways of mining and burning coal; and 3) work...
After months of resisting growing pressures and trying to avoid drastic cutbacks, the mayor finally produced a package of economies that he hopes will restore confidence in city bonds and stave off threatened bankruptcy. His cutbacks are estimated to save some $500 million in an expense budget of $12 billion for fiscal 1976. Even so, his reductions may not suffice to encourage investors to buy the $4 billion in notes the city will have to market before the end of the year to meet its pressing short-term debt. "I don't know," mused Investment Banker Felix G. Rohatyn...