Word: drastically
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...signs of German aggression became clearer during 1941, greater numbers of students, in what another Crimson editorial termed a "seemingly drastic shift," prepared to leave school and head off to fight the enemy...
...beginning of the long Brezhnev era might be enough to give voters pause: "Soviet leaders are now facing their most alarming internal failure in years: a serious sag in the economy...In the Russian Republic...meat will be underproduced by 40% in 1970, eggs by 44%. Other drastic shortages will be in passenger cars, furniture, building materials and synthetic fabrics...[T]o order a pair of pants from a Soviet tailor shop...[n]o fewer than four magazine-size blanks must be filled out...[As for] the military, [it] will continue to demand a disproportionate share of the country...
...believe that only by drastic change will we be able to have a student government that will effectively represent the student population," Hill says...
This exploitation of white resentment has had drastic effects. The exploitation of voter resentment can have the same effect. Surely, we can learn from the lessons of painkillers and apply them to political campaigns. Words, and especially negative words, can turn people off to entire processes. With the bleak portrait of government facing them in the media every day, Americans in the best-case scenario would react with apathy, and in the worst case with some action, at the words of those who exploit fears and tensions...
Others say they think more drastic measures are necessary to revitalize student confidence and participation in their student government...