Word: drastically
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...That drastic action followed the destruction of two bridges near the Honduran border, which the Sandinistas blamed on U.S.-backed "counterrevolutionaries." The State Department officially answered that charge with a perfunctory "No comment." Privately, a senior State Department official said that he could not rule out the possibility that some U.S.-based exile group might have been responsible...
Unless city voters decide to override Prop 2 1/2 cuts in a special referendum next month, the result, according to the budget outline delivered to the council, will be: "fewer police officers on the streets and a decline in public safety," possible shut-downs of fire stations; and "drastic" decreases in public works services...
...ballot questions pass, Cambridge will be able to level-tax and level-fund its public services in the coming fiscal year, instead of being forced to make drastic (10%-25%) cuts in police, fire, schools, health, public works, human services, libraries, etc., as would be dictated by Proportion...
...talk to the Governors, he complained that Reagan had passed his tax and budget slashes in "a great rookie year" in 1981, mainly by maneuvering members of Congress into voting simply for or against the President. Vowed O'Neill: "This country will not make the same drastic mistake this year with New Federalism and the budget. The American people will know what's in them and how they add up." That, of course, was a partisan view. Yet on the New Federalism, O'Neill seemed in step with most of the Governors. They like the principle...
...hard-liners have been circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...