Word: drastically
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Cambridge will need to make drastic cuts in next year's budget to keep the city in sound fiscal health, according to Councillor Edward...
...expenditure passed unanimously it sparked the longest debate of the evening. Councillor William H. Walsh asked Healy and Cambridge Hospital Administrator John O'Brien how many people use the present Riverside clinic. Walsh also questioned the wisdom of spending money on the hospital improvements when the city faces drastic budget tightening...
...Olsen said, the term "battle for survival" is a bit drastic...
Obviously, school reform is badly needed. But many parents--especially minorities, who comprise 85 percent of CPS students--believe that even more drastic challenges to the education bureaucracy may be called for, and call for a privatized voucher system. As Professor Kevin Ryan of the Boston University Education School says, public schools have "all the problems of a monopoly, of a protected industry that is there to serve its own interests, not that of the consumer of education...
...Princeton, N.J. "It is a moral sense, even though it's entangled with professional pride and a sense of what works and what doesn't." Still, if the allied strategy of waging a fair fight should fail, the war's prosecutors may come under pressure to resort to more drastic means...