Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last three years an explosion of outlets has turned Main Street into a name-brand heaven. For those inclined toward dapper preppiness, Polo-Ralph Lauren has opened a factory outlet which sells at drastic discounts. Hathaway shirts, Bass shoes--and its competitors Dexter and Timberland--also have joined the crowd. Even London Fog raincoats can be bought in this once-sleepy village. For those interested in kitchenware or furniture, there are Corning Designs and Dansk...
Confusion and agony dominate the debate. Confusion, because no one can say which of the proposed cuts in Government spending might become law. The drastic ones recommended in Ronald Reagan's new budget? The arbitrary ones contemplated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act? Whatever might emerge from a tortured compromise between President and Congress? Agony, because one thing is quite clear in any event: whenever, however and by whomever the job is done, any major shrinking of the gargantuan federal deficit must involve spending surgery that will hurt more citizens more seriously than ever. As that realization sinks...
...slowly be changing. One weekly managed to be both antisex and antisexist when it wrote that "virginity education should be carried out with females and males at the same time. A girl and a boy who have illegal sex should both face social accusation." Such accusation may have drastic implications; China's legal system lumps almost all sex crimes under the category of rape, which carries severe penalties, including long imprisonment or death in cases of serious injury or homicide. The possibility of a rape charge can haunt almost any male in China. Many of the rapes recounted in Girls...
Marginal cuts will still take place, accordingto Marglin, but they will not be as drastic asthose outlined by Gramm-Rudman...
...does battle. His fellow employees and the kingpins of his mother's high-society existence become orc-like creatures who are dragging Jill in a cage. The myriad ducts which encroach upon his apartment become snakes which attack him, and his mother, who has been getting progressively more drastic facelifts, appears looking like his daughter...