Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ample supply of gas for their camping stove, lest there be no fuel next winter in their Kensington flat. And in the two days after Howe delivered his budget message to Commons, the Financial Times stock index dropped 27 points. The Tories stoutly defended their drastic action. "This is a severe package," conceded John Biffen, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. "But the severity is made necessary by the situation we inherited...
That distinction did not make much sense to two dissenters, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan. They argued that since Massachusetts could have easily foreseen the unfair impact on women, it should have looked for a less drastic way to help vets, like adding points to their civil service scores...
...week following the attack, says the OTA report, those living near the targets would be "in a state of shock, with their lives disrupted and further drastic changes inevitable ... People would face many immediate tasks: care of the injured, burial of the dead, search and rescue, and fire fighting." A major problem would be the treatment of the tens of thousands of third-degree burn victims. At present notes the report, the combined facilities of all U.S. hospitals can treat no more than 2,000 cases of severe burns...
...whether they would spend four uninterrupted years in Cambridge. The United States had entered into the second war in these young men's lives. Naturally they were worried; older brothers had died in World War II. The headline in The Crimson's 1950 Registration Issue read "University Plans No Drastic Changes To Meet World Crisis; '54 Should Escape Draft Call." And they did. No one in the Class of '54 died on a Korean battlefield. In fact, George S. Abrams writes in the 25th Anniversary Report of his class, "The worst effect of the Korean War for most...
...could turn drastic in the future if OPEC continues to restrict production and jack up prices, as it is doing now. Meanwhile, American energy policy is not being made by the Government at all, but by gas-station owners, oil companies and a very bewildered public...