Word: drastically
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Democrat Edmund G. Brown Jr. is proposing the most drastic changes in American health care. Brown, the former governor of California, is calling for a system of national insurance similar to that of Canada...
...more than twice-told tale, but familiarity should not dull the glow of Clinton's greatest accomplishment. In 1978 one study found Arkansas' schools to be the worst in the nation, bar none. Realizing that Arkansas could never break out of its cycle of poverty and backwardness without a drastic improvement in schooling, the Governor appointed his wife Hillary to head a panel that would recommend reforms, and this was one task force that got results. Acting on its advice, Clinton set tough standards, which every school had to meet, instituted competency tests for teachers over the initial opposition...
...drastic increase in transfers resulted from changes in the application process, Dingman said...
...boasts that the automated system will offer consumers "more choice in how they make long-distance calls." But the Communications Workers of America, which represents telephone operators, begs to differ. "This decision represents a drastic change in what people have come to expect in customer service," says spokeswoman Gaye Williams Mack. "They need a service that is best provided by human beings...
...suffered drastic cuts in foreign news coverage and recently closed bureaus in Johannesburg, Bangkok and Hong Kong, he said...