Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alone," Flanigan said of the volunteer drive. "We need the help of corporations, universities, unions, minorities, civic groups and other organizations. And we need people with specific skills ... and there's a drastic need for dental health care...
LaLonde said he feared for his daughter's safety while she was hidden by her mother. He said he was concerned people in the "underground railroad" who kept Nicole from authorities might take some unspecified drastic action if he said anything to anger them, a situation he likened to authorities dealing with hostage-takers in Iran...
...business restraints like so much prickly underbrush on the President's ranch. The expense of complying with federal regulations, Reagan claimed, had cost Americans between $50 billion and $150 billion a year. After only ten days in office, he put a freeze on more than 170 pending regulations. A drastic pullback of Government involvement in business followed, especially in federal attempts to control prices and markets. How successful was the correction? Consider four industries that have been deregulated by Congress and Administrative action...
...known for at least two years that he had been infected with the AIDS virus continued to have sexual relations with his clients, mostly married bisexual men. Today fear of such reckless behavior is driving many states -- Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina and Hawaii among them -- to consider drastic solutions: temporary detention, forced isolation, even jail for so- called recalcitrant carriers. It is not an idle threat. Last month in Pensacola, Fla., a judge ordered a 14-year-old infected with the virus locked up in a local hospital's psychiatric ward for more than a week after hearing evidence that...
...some of the most far-reaching proposals of his almost 28 months in $ office, Gorbachev outlined plans for reforming slothful management and industrial practices. He called for reduced central control of the economy and reform in "planning, pricing, finance and credit." He also demanded a "drastic extension" of independent decision making at the factory level. To increase productivity, he proposed that workers share in factory profits and enjoy incomes without fixed ceilings...