Word: drastically
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Clinton's ideas have great popular support, but his plan will still come under fire from all sides. A group of conservatives are taking his themes and raising the stakes even further. They don't want to reform welfare; they want to abolish it. Only drastic measures, they argue, will break the cycle of dependency that has destroyed so many families. To liberals, such a policy is cruel and racist, and it punishes children for their parents' behavior. When the Philadelphia Inquirer ran an editorial suggesting that women on welfare be implanted with the contraceptive Norplant -- a sort of chemical...
...President must know how useful -- or how dangerous -- welfare reform can be politically. All during his campaign, when his pollsters monitored the responses to commercials promising a drastic revolution, the response was off the charts. One White House aide and campaign veteran estimates that 40% of Clinton's paid advertising mentioned ending welfare. It formed the basis for Clinton's claim to be a New Democrat. Middle-class voters, argues Al From of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, "just never expected to hear a Democrat say, 'You can stay on welfare for two years, but then you have...
...fortunately, there have been even fewer times when a team has had the same kind of turnaround as the wrestlers had--a drastic plunge from success to hard times...
Even with the change, Harvard's reading period is the longest of any Ivy League school. Herschbach maintains that the change is hardly drastic...
...Mercedes are at hand, but almost all expect -- even demand -- some visible improvement in their everyday life. "There is a transfer of power taking place to the toiling masses of this country," says Voice Mabe, a trade-union worker in Soweto. "From the end of April, there will be drastic changes...