Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason universities have not seen the drastic funding cuts once feared has been a massive effort by college administrators, professors and students to plead the case in Washington, Shireman says...
...stock to drop 10 percent. "Apple Chief Executive Michael Spindler is going to look more and more like the little boy with the finger in the dike if he tries to stop a merger or takeover," says TIME's David Jackson. "Despite Markkula's denial, Apple must take drastic measures to survive. The smaller Apple's market share gets, and it's now at about 10 percent, the less appeal it has to software developers." As a result, Apple is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up in a market that places a high premium on new software applications. Jackson...
...withholding of undergraduate grades represented the most drastic step yet by GESO, which has been trying for the past five years to gain recognition as a union. Yale has maintained that the teaching assistants are students, not employees...
...defending the tax cuts as well as the drastic spending cuts, he had lost control of the high-road message he had so carefully crafted on Medicare. He had planned to make his case in a splashy September speech, but ended up canceling it, partly in deference to the sensibilities of the Senate, an august body that did not like anyone thinking it marched to the beat of mere House members. So instead of launching his fall campaign on high principles, he immediately found himself bickering over details--none of which was particularly pretty...
...most drastic measure proposed to fight grade inflation is transcript amplification, which includes placing on the transcript the mean grade and the number of enrolled students for each course...