Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent board unanimously decided Wednesday night to take Harvard to Third District Court early next week in order to obtain documents that the Craigie Arms tenants association says are necessary to fight the University's plans to evict them to make way for drastic renovations within the building...
...More drastic still is the imminent dismantling of Project Galileo, a $500 million enterprise that would place an unmanned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and drop a probe directly into the giant planet's atmosphere. More than $200 million has already been spent, including several million dollars by the West Germans...
...unveiled a committee on student volunteerism; Bok charged that group with increasing the opportunities for students to participate in community service. Such activities may represent some small way of reinculcating the sense of decency that so many say is now lacking. Unless Bok's new committee takes a drastic step, however, like calling for mandatory community service, it probably will not make a big dent in the "civility problem." Still, the University has to begin somewhere. If unacceptable behavior is "neglected much longer," one veteran professor argues, "all the Core Curricula in the world will not salvage the place." After...
market. But few industry watchers share its optimism. Most think that the firm faces another difficult year and will get by mainly because of drastic cost-cutting measures that have pared the company's white-collar work force in the U.S. by 22% since...
Many Western experts doubted that the Soviet message meant that an invasion was imminent. But it was unclear what "radical steps" Moscow expected the Poles to take. Short of declaring martial law, a drastic event that could cause a massive civil uprising, Polish authorities could presumably start suppressing Solidarity's publications, banning union meetings and even arresting people accused of "anti-Soviet" attacks. All of these acts have in fact already occurred in scattered instances. But in the present atmosphere, any case of local repression could balloon into a major confrontation...