Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cherbrikov: Well, if we can't neutralize Womack, then I suggest much more drastic action. We must get that guy, that Polish history teacher...what is his name, oh yes, Pipes, back to Washington as soon as possible. That is our only hope. Otherwise the Revolution is lost in Cambridge. I'll get my boys on it right away...
...whole story to hold their audiences. Star Wars showed that a film could contain more information than most viewers could catch the first time around and still be an alltime blockbuster. MTV serves up a Dalicatessen of surreal images, and everybody comes back for seconds. Gremlins goes through more drastic mood changes than Sybil; it has sold more than $100 million worth of tickets this summer. Buckaroo Banzai, then, is simply extending the trend of data overload. Still, its creators, Earl Mac Rauch (New York, New York) and W.D. Richter (who wrote Slither and Brubaker), propel their film with such...
Among other victories, the committee succeeded in reversing the drastic reduction in library hours...
...thirds of Continental's $30 billion in deposits. Last week bank officials appeared to have virtually given up looking for another bank or for some wealthy buyer to infuse new money into the institution. Instead, they were meeting in Washington with is federal regulators to discuss a drastic, last-resort solution in which the Government would assume ownership of Continental. If the deal is concluded, it will be the first nationalization of a major bank in U.S. history...
Lilco is not the only power company whose managers are seriously talking about bankruptcy, which has not happened to a major utility in the U.S. since World War II. About half a dozen of America's 100 largest electric utilities are near that drastic step. What is more, these are among the biggest and most respected in the country, and how they handle their problems will determine the response of the entire industry...