Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuing world oil shortfall to begin rationing fuel to big customers. Phillips Petroleum and Shell, the nation's largest gasoline seller, have either cut refinery output or reduced dealers' delivery allocations; the cuts range from Shell's maximum of 8% to Phillips' much more drastic 30%. And the reductions could get worse. "After the second quarter, it's anybody's guess what will happen," says an Exxon spokesman. "It's a day-to-day situation...
...other which is necessary to complete Ravenal's revue of women's experience. The life crisis that all the actresses suffer, however, could only be believable if complicated people were suffering them. And surely one woman out of five might have emerged from four years of college without suffering drastic emotional mutilation...
...change no matter how far afield a convention's amendments ran. It is true that the 1787 convention tossed its agenda aside and offered an entirely new constitution; the states ratified it then because of the apparent weakness of the old Articles. Today there is no widespread sentiment for drastic constitutional revision, and any attempt to try it would be laughed out of the state legislatures...
...thing that apparently helped matters was Washington's decision not to take drastic action concerning the sophisticated F-14 fighter planes and Phoenix missiles that belong to Iran. The U.S. Government decided it was more prudent to trust the Khomeini forces with preventing the planes from falling into Soviet hands than to chart a treacherous course of blowing up the planes or seeking to fly them to a safe destination. Pentagon officials said that the critical electronic guidance systems the Soviets would like to confiscate and study have been safely transplanted to secure locations. But the radar dishes along...
...wage settlements, but the strikers were demanding increases ranging from 20% to 41%. The Prime Minister considered calling a state of emergency, thus empowering the armed forces to transport vital supplies of food and fuel. He rejected that course for fear of provoking the unions into even more drastic measures. Challenged by a Tory backbencher to bring the unions under control, Callaghan could only ask plaintively, "What action can I take...