Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be the first to admit that I go to the bathroom too often for my own good, but Harvard's measures seem much too drastic. Next thing you know, they'll be putting in those single sheets of cellophane in their toilet holders like they do at cheap restaurants and gas stations...
...Gorbachev is demanding better economic performance from his allies not through any drastic reform but simply through attacking the familiar abuses of the Communist systems: waste, corruption, sclerotic bureaucracy and poor workmanship. Instead of policy and leadership changes, $ Eastern Europe's regimes are under marching orders to take the slack out of the existing economic systems. Central planning remains, but better and younger economic management is expected to bring improved results...
...when construction on Hilles Library fell behind schedule in September 1966, the Library Committee decided to take drastic steps: they let Radcliffe students use Lamont...
...most vulnerable are those who find themselves on crash diets, says Honnet. "Male athletes, especially wrestlers and rowers, can develop bad habits. Both use drastic measures to get down to unrealistic weights...
Walsh said that the council was willing to take more drastic action if Wasserman was not more cooperative with residents in the future...