Word: drastically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took a few years for the financial situation in the real world to penetrate the Ivy walls, but it happened. Schools like Brown, Brandeis and UMass all had to make drastic cuts in financial aid, student services and even faculty teaching time, and all those schools saw more strident student protest than they had in a long time--at Brown and Brandeis, students forcibly occupied university buildings...
Touch and Go remains casual about matters of plot, however, and gets lazy in its joking. There are too many Italian-army gags, for example, all having to do with stupidity or cowardice. Even more drastic, the film has an insinuating cuteness, like De Broca's much-cherished King of Hearts. De Broca works hard at being likable, and makes it, finally, alto gether too easy...
...California walkout was the most drastic response yet to the steep rise in premiums set by one of the nation's leading malpractice insurers, Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif. (TIME, May 5). Claiming that soaring malpractice awards were causing it to lose money, Argonaut last January announced that beginning in May it would raise its premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed...
...seemed afterwards to have been brewing for months: the DuBois Institute Student Committee had been considering a sit-in or more drastic action since February, and the administration, sensing something in the air, had increased police security in the Yard...
...extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy toward them. Doubtless bearing that sharply worded article in mind, one Latin American diplomat at the U.N. last week called Moynihan's impending appointment "an American declaration of war on the Third World." While Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger certainly have nothing so drastic in mind, Moynihan at the U.N. does seem to signal a continuation of a new U.S. toughness in the world forum...