Word: drastically
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Though some legislators today might be reluctant to make such a promise, no one in Congress is seriously proposing anything as drastic as Smoot-Hawley. Still, the pro-tariff mania that swept Washington 55 years ago remains a danger. "What we are afraid of," says S. Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, "is that people are so emotional that they will do something that they know is foolish, just to do something...
...Just enough Senators and Representatives will change their minds on a revote to sustain the veto. Then will follow a confused struggle between legislators fearful of a trade war yet determined to force Reagan to do more to promote exports and curtail imports, and a President wary of drastic moves yet aware that he has to do something to start trimming the trade deficit...
...Congress, they note, has on more than one occasion produced a budget bristling with a hodge-podge of local and special interest-pleasing items. No dispute so far. But will the proposed solution, the line-item veto, solve the problem which proponents cite, or might the consequences be more drastic than proponents tell...
Last week Florida took a still more drastic step to halt the epidemic: it quarantined the state's 300 commercial citrus nurseries. Said Charles Poucher, director of the state's canker project: "It causes an extreme hardship on nurserymen, but it had to be done because we can't live with citrus canker...
...Prime Minister insisted that drastic reform was necessary "to prevent an actual collapse" of the Israeli economy. After seven months of voluntary wage and price restraints, the country's inflation rate is still soaring at 300% annually. Burdened with enormous military expenditures and extensive social-welfare programs, the government last year ran a $1.8 billion deficit on a $23 billion budget. The foreign debt, the world's highest per capita, has reached $23 billion, and foreign-currency reserves have dropped to $2 billion...