Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heller, who introduced the original motion making the "Impeachment" proceedings secret, admitted yesterday that he had made a "drastic mistake." An organization like the Student Council has a right to make a statement in its own way, he said, but that statement must include the facts. The official Council explanation of Fisher's removal did not go far enough, Heller concluded...
...Europe. Once the Nazis were defeated, the Allied coalition determined to control the Ruhr, to make sure that Germany would never again have the productive means for war. Originally, the Allies planned to pull up the factories by the foundations and turn the Ruhr into a pasture-land. This drastic position was, however, economically dangerous, and slowly gave way to a more sensible proposition. As the center of Europe's industrial recovery program, the Ruhr was to be completely utilized--but with stiff and continuing controls...
...vigorous action by student organizations, Dean Bender has dropped his recent ruling that would have required all student investigating bodies to "clear" with his office before interviewing officials of the administrative departments. He has instead agreed to try out Student Council proposals that are more sensible--and certainly less drastic--than his original plan...
That plan was drastic; but the problems it sought to solve were not. Vice-President Reynolds and his department had complained that student investigations were bothering them; also, officers in the department had given answers on minor undergraduate problems that had sometimes been at odds with Dean's Office policy. The Dean's solution to this difficulty, however, was a denial of the student right of free investigation. College groups reacted promptly, and Bender announced that he would accept any reasonable alternative plan...
...song" of the extinct Eskimo curlew, "a Mozart of the prairies," and all through the book he develops the idea that men cannot live happily and permanently on the planet except in "ecological" balance with "the wildlife." In many cases, he thinks, this balance can be restored only by drastic reduction of human population (100 million Americans would be about right). According to Vogt, medical men who keep people from dying, upset nature's balance; if more people died there would be more room for mountain lions...