Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoke, but this is a little drastic. [Students] never heard any thing until after they made the deci- sion," said Summerlin...
...Perotistas criticized the Clinton envoys for promising to use income generated by upper-income tax hikes to cut middle-class taxes rather than reduce the deficit. On the other hand, the volunteers found the Bush team vague on entitlement cuts and short on evidence to support their claim to drastic deficit reduction in five years. + Perhaps the strangest point of the meetings came when Jack Kemp, the excitable Housing Secretary famous for abandoning Bush whenever the urge hits him, bounded to his feet and exclaimed, "Run, Ross! Run, Ross, and let the chips fall where they...
This quote, from Derrick Bell's recent book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well could have been referring to an earlier era in American history, during which Bell fought valiantly for the right to integrated education. The book reveals at drastic change in Bell's moral and political beliefs. Bell holds that not only is racism prevalent today, but it is also not going away...
...that stands between Keri and the mean streets of Chicago. If the school does close, he says, he might drop out rather than run the gauntlet of hostile gangs to attend school in another neighborhood. His mother's insistence and his own determination, though, will probably prevent that drastic step. Another thing that keeps Keri in school is concern for his brothers, five- year-old Quentin, who has a learning disability, and three-year-old Detwone. "I don't want them to end up victims of the streets," he says. "I want them to get their education...
...shrewdest ploys for keeping Perot's name in the news was the % publication in August of his book, United We Stand, whose title is also the name of his newly launched advocacy group. The book contains the drastic economic prescriptions that Perot made public only after withdrawing from the race. Perot has won the attention and credibility he craves by helping to keep the slim volume on the New York Times paperback best-seller list. Volunteers, using the author's own money, are urged to buy the plan, then distribute it free of charge at Perot field offices, to public...