Word: drastically
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...feelings of discomfort may be unwarranted, they cannot be wiped away with the simple stroke of a bureaucrat's pen. Homosexuals are not accepted in society by many Americans. This fact can only be changed over time, if it is to be changed at all. To force such a drastic change on the military would be to dismiss entirely the primary purpose of the armed forces. The military is designed to win wars as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. It is a not a laboratory in which social engineers may perform their experiments at will...
Labor Secretary Robert Reich -- shocking most of the Administration -- dared both Democrats and Republicans to match the GOP's Monday proposal to curtail welfare benefits with drastic cuts in "corporate welfare," his term for billions of dollars inbusiness tax credits and subsidies. The address to the moderate Democratic Leadership Council had originally been billed as the last of Reich's triptych on "the anxious middle class." But Reich, apparently reacting to the election results and the new GOP attack on welfare policy, delivered a tirade against what he identified as $225 billion in tax benefits for particular industries. "Since...
...hope these people will just go away. But the fact is they won't. As long as there are employers who are willing to hire them at low wages, illegal immigrants will remain in the state as well as continue to emigrate from their native lands. Instead of these drastic, radical measures proposed in Proposition 187, the state should focus its resources on enforcing already existing employer sanctions and strengthening the border control...
Worse, there appears to be no end in sight without drastic action. On the national level, a study done by Professor Donald Huddle of Rice University estimated that immigration will cost taxpayers $22 billion a year for the next 10 years. While part of this figure can be attributed to legal immigration, much of it is the product of uncontrolled illegal immigration across the Mexican border...
...Drastic times demand drastic measures. Prop 187, and Wilson's plan for documentation, are the only effective solution we have to the problem of illegal immigration. It is a justifiable means to a most desirable...