Word: drastically
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...place are officials loyal to Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare José López Rega, the shadowy confidant of Mrs. Perón. A former astrologer, López Rega is widely regarded as the country's most powerful figure. He has presided over a drastic turn toward economic austerity that has enraged millions of Argentines. As one Buenos Aires columnist put it, "Peronism has yielded to López Regaism...
...Drastic Step. Rodrigo rode to his swearing-in ceremony on the subway, a gesture that turned out to be the last popular thing he did. Two days after taking office, he devalued the peso from 15 to the U.S. dollar to 30. He also took a drastic step to solve one of the country's basic economic problems: prices, controlled by the Peronists as a populist measure, had fallen so far behind wages that production was lagging. Rodrigo announced price hikes in essential goods that quickly blossomed into across-the-board increases (see chart). On the first...
...other overhead expenses. Newsweek would perhaps have to make a similar leap, as would such other weeklies as Saturday Review, The New Yorker, New York magazine and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Even monthlies, such as Harper's and Reader's Digest, would have to hit their subscribers with drastic price increases. Religious, labor and farm publications would also be severely hurt...
With the exception of a drastic cutback in men or a dramatic increase in the size of the College to accommodate more women, most of the big givers don't care very much what happens at Harvard. They have no clear indication from Harvard of what is going on academically, and University academia is a topic rarely broached when they do congregate (most of the alum's don't recognize the name Henry Rosovsky as dean of the Faculty). Even the interviewers, many of them recent graduates, can only answer questions about the broad tutorial and House systems, and nothing...
Although the year ended before the CHUL could make any concrete recommendations, within the near future a few drastic changes in housing assignment procedures may take place...