Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the pro-government Times of India criticized Mrs. Gandhi for proceeding with a trip to Arab capitals beginning this week. "If her government has recognized the situation to be critical enough to warrant such drastic measures," it asked in an editorial, "can she afford to be away from the country for even a day? The trip will appear to be an exercise in escapism." Mrs. Gandhi, caught between pressures to do more and less, must wonder if escape lies anywhere...
...story worth remembering. If the theatregoer is patient, not too sleepy, and willing to work, the evening is by no means a theatrical dead loss. Swartz and her company have coaxed a good deal out of this literary curiosity, perhaps as much as they possibly could have retrieved without drastic retranslation and even more drastic cutting. But one is disposed to frustration because such efforts and talent, applied elsewhere, would have achieved so much more. It's a shame when mainstage mystique and mainstage selection pressures induce mainstage directors to make things so difficult for themselves...
...Department of Revenue seized the deli after the owners failed to respond to a series of less drastic measures. The department used seizure only as a last resort, "if we simply can't work anything out" with the establishment, said spokesman George Bogosian...
...fewer deaths from heart attacks in women than in men in the U.S. Race seems to play a part in how well the body handles cholesterol. Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of a long-term study in Bogalusa, La., has found that the changes in boys at puberty are more drastic in whites than in blacks. Says he: "It is as if white males are genetically programmed for early coronary disease...
...believe the high court will eventually approve a daily moment of silence. The precise rules could be difficult to establish, and no law will entirely insulate students from religious pressure. But by ruling on a major school-prayer case, the Justices might be able to head off the more drastic alternative: an amendment limiting the court's authority to interpret the Constitution. "With all the heat for a constitutional amendment, the court may say, 'Let's ease up and allow a moment of meditation,'" says Jesuit Father Robert Drinan, professor of law at Georgetown University...