Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melissa S. Lane '88, the head of the Undergraduate Council's delegation to the CUE and the author of a report favoring council control of the book, also said that less drastic reforms might be acceptable
...running to the Union with 10 minutes left, getting firsts, stuffing it in cups, and going to get seconds before they shut the doors. It's pretty drastic, walking around with roast beef in your cups," said Joe P. Howard '89, football manager...
...despite the switch, Burnes' boat was capsized by a drastic windshift during the first leg, automatically booting Harvard to dead last (16th place) in that race--and dropping the team five points behind B.U. in the overall standings...
...against political opponents of the revolutionary Sandinista government. He decreed the suspension of nearly all civil liberties in Nicaragua, including the right to strike and the rights of free expression, public assembly, freedom of movement, habeas corpus and protection from arbitrary arrest, search and seizure. His justification for that drastic crackdown: the threat of "political destabilization" posed by the "terrorist policies of the United States," as well as by the "internal pawns of imperialism." Said Ortega: "It is a fundamental condition for the lifting of these exceptional measures that the imperialist aggression against Nicaragua be effectively stopped...
...Cameron advocates the summary execution of homosexuals could not be further from the truth. In fact, in his presentation, Cameron expressly rejected the "China Solution" of execution as morally repugnant. In fact, it was his repudiation of this option that moved him to consider the quarantine option as a drastic, but possibly necessary step to undercut the pressure for even more Draconian measures...