Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TOKYO--Japanese and U.S. trade negotiators agreed yesterday to drastic economic changes to help cut the $49 billion U.S. trade deficit with Japan. Officials said the unprecedented pact would improve the quality of life in both countries...
...Reagan administration made drastic cuts in the federal education budget, and then-Secretary of Education William J. Bennett hurled attack after attack against selective private colleges, accusing them of being too expensive, elitist and academically unfocused...
...drastic misjudgments at year's end--which resulted in a polarization of the campus on the issue of Harvard's affiliation the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), and a $25,000 loss on a folk-rock concert--pushed the succeeding assembly back to firmer, and, in the minds of many, more boring grounds...
...lived in a world unafraid of drastic change, there would be no need for gradual change, and therefore no need for hypocritical in-betweens. The real world has shown me that this is not the case...
...White House, however, worries about the economic consequences of forcing sudden, drastic curbs in fossil-fuel use. From the Administration's point of view, draconian action seems highly debatable so long as the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is sketchy. "We are not at the point where we can bet the economy," says a Sununu aide...