Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is envisioned a shifting of the whole burden of British taxation so drastic as to seem epochal. Chancellor Churchill, beaming with confidence, announced that his program has the unanimous support of all members of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet (Conservative). It is scheduled to come into effect as of Oct. i, 1929, with the passage of a series of bills, which the Cabinet expects to carry through Parliament before Christmas...
Budget. Apart from the daring program just set forth, the new Budget may be summarized thus: 1) Expenditures are estimated at ?806,195,000, and receipts at ?812.497,000, thus leaving an expected surplus of ?6,302,000; 2) Drastic economies will be effected by discharging 11,000 civil officials during the coming year; 3) The exemptions from the income tax already extended to parents, in proportion to the number of their children, are now sharply increased. Thus a single child, which brought an exemption of ?36 ($175), last year, is at present worth ?60 ($292) in exemptions. Additional children...
Since the Bulgarian city of Philippopolis had already suffered an earthquake, last fortnight (TIME, April 30), the Bulgarian Government of Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff was fully aroused, last week, and proceeded by drastic means to cope with the additional disasters as they occurred...
...ominous accusations that the congress had been a "steam-roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled by a unanimous vote, the former holder of the contract having apparently been identified with the "Insurgents." It is obvious that such drastic treatment must get results, and with the delicate problem of members pins out of the way, the situation, whatever it is, certain to clear...
...there is little if any danger of a drastic reaction in the stock market as a result of wild trading...