Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Needing a drastic increase in funds to back the huge debt, Sallie Mae went public in September 1983, with a 6 million share stock offering Demand for out stripped that 6 million level, so the sale was increased first to 8 million and finally to 10 million shares...
...technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses along the waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city, like such self-centered and gaudy projects as Renaissance...
...major new report by a respected reformer offers the most radical proposals yet. In Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (Houghton Mifflin; $16.95), Theodore Sizer argues that the nation's high schools are rigid and out of date, and he calls for a drastic reorganization of the curriculum and school day. Sizer, a former headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., as well as a former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, urges doing away with age-based grades, minimum ages for leaving school and "tracking" of students by ability. He believes...
Saunders and other educators can be expected to press their cast against the Reagan program for higher education, especially in light of even more drastic proposed cutbacks in the area for the budget for fiscal year 1985. But while it is unclear just how important education in general will ultimately be in the campaign, issues involving elementary and secondary schools will most likely overshadow the higher education issues...
...loss in aid would mean "drastic" cutbacks in services such as microfilming and book preservation, said Sally Williams, budget and planning officer for the Harvard libraries...