Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such drastic actions must be taken. Certainly Tony LaRussa must have been wrong when he said that The Game is better than all of us, right? Right...
...talked about being more activist andmore drastic," Tom says. "But I'm afraid that wewould inspire negative repercussions. We couldnever recreate the spirit of the '60s, and I thinknow we would be seen as extremist, and would thenbe ineffective...
...protests that "doing searches of apartments is a meaningless gesture. Weapons come back." Tom Sullivan, a lawyer for pro- sweep residents, agrees that the searches are only "a Band-Aid." Even Vincent Lane, chairman of the Chicago housing authority, thinks a long-run solution would have to be really drastic: "We ought to be looking for ways to get rid of the Robert Taylor Homes of the world and provide ((different)) housing for poor people...
...instance, appeared to have been only about 3 ft. 6 in. tall and to have weighed 60 to 65 lbs., while some males would have topped 5 ft. and 110 lbs. Size variations between the sexes are common among the great apes, but they aren't usually this drastic among hominids. (Despite the extreme examples of, say, the towering Shaquille O'Neal and the tiny Dr. Ruth Westheimer, there's only about a 5-in. difference between the average modern man and woman...
Wilson also said that although the five percent decrease in the number of Black Ph.D.'s is disturbing, it is not as drastic as Harvard makes...