Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Schroeder?s party not only turfed out of power, but also humiliated by finishing third behind the communists. With the eastern state of Saxony due to vote Sunday, the party is bracing for more bad news, and resistance to Schroeder?s leadership is mounting. "Schroeder?s reforms are drastic, even compared with the conservative Christian Democratic government that preceded him," says TIME Bonn correspondent Ursula Sautter. "The Christian Democrats could never have tried to do what the Social Democrats are attempting now ?- they?re hardly criticizing his welfare plan because they know it needs to be done, and they tried...
...brain researchers might never have picked up on the fragmentary nature of memory without their studies of people whose memory has been damaged by illness or injury. The most celebrated such individual is H.M. In 1953, when he was 27, he had drastic brain surgery to cure severe epilepsy. The operation cured his epilepsy, but removing parts of his brain's temporal lobes, including a structure called the hippocampus, destroyed his ability to form new memories. H.M., who is still alive, has a reasonably good short-term memory. Once introduced to a visitor, he will remember the person's name...
...domes seemed remarkably cool--not just about the weather outside but also about what it might portend. While a single heat wave doesn't make a worldwide meltdown (see following story), a great many scientists believe that by continuing to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, humans are forcing drastic climate changes. Yet Congress seems determinedly indifferent. As the lawmakers prepare for their summer adjournment, legislative efforts to slow that warming by reducing greenhouse emissions have all but ground to a halt. Withering too, like so many cornstalks, are other major pro-environmental bills: increased funding for research on energy...
President Clinton has promised a veto, calling $792 billion in tax cuts too drastic...
...high as they are now, says Charles Clough, chief investment strategist of Merrill Lynch, is "the bond market's proclivity to identify growth with inflation." But that proclivity, in the board's opinion, is simply wrong: there is no inflation threat scary enough to push the Fed into drastic action. Prices did spike abruptly in April, but that, says Clough, was due largely to a speculative rise in industrial commodity prices that "has already lapsed." Though Asian countries are starting to recover from the crisis that knocked demand and commodity prices so far down in 1998, recovery has been...