Word: drastically
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I had a sense that the mood of the country was really changing. The Republican revolution was perhaps frightening people a little bit with the drastic measures they seemed willing to take to balance the budget...
Kudos to the developers of Redux and other obesity miracle drugs [HEALTH, Sept. 23]. Nonetheless, drugs they are, with side effects and limited usefulness. They are drastic solutions to avoidable problems. The real way to escape being overweight is prevention. Walk, run, bike, swim or row for half an hour a day and eat a proper diet. Live like a marathoner, and you'll look like one. JAY WIND Arlington, Virginia...
...were subjecting what we read and saw to the force of theory that we pretended to practice. (Nineteen-sixty-eight came to Minnesota several years late; after all, it was under the benevolent leadership of a drugstore liberal, Hubert Humphrey.) The discipline needed to bolster its enrollments or face drastic retrenchment...
...free of the Parkinsonian side effects (the "Thorazine shuffle" and so on) that plague the classic antipsychotic drugs. It was also the first drug to ameliorate symptoms of schizophrenia that are resistant to other drugs. But Clozaril has a major drawback: a life-threatening side effect called agranulocytosis, a drastic drop in white blood cells that requires patients to undergo expensive weekly blood monitoring...
...might force a future President to demand even bigger increases than would otherwise be needed. The Republican Congress, however, did at least propose to slow the growth of Medicare spending by $270 billion over seven years. Clinton proposed cuts of $124 billion, but effectively demagogued the Republicans for proposing "drastic cuts." That kind of talk can only frighten the elderly into still more determined opposition to Medicare changes--any kind, ever...