Word: drastically
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...England and Wales, as in the U.S., the Roman Catholic Church has long maintained a school system of its own, to give children church doctrine along with their Three Rs. Last week, Catholic Parents' Associations in Britain were rallying support for a drastic change: they wanted to persuade the government to take over the Catholic schools. Nobody was happy about it. To the crisis-goaded government it would mean an added financial drain; to British Catholics it might be a dangerous surrender. But there seemed to be no other...
There are many reasons for thinking that this new system will be a success. Not the least is that everyone is tired of flopping albums, and may be roused to more drastic action by further failures...
...largely paid for by $68 billion in Government loans & grants to Europe and more than $10 billion in private gifts. These grants "have in effect been unconscious subsidies to American export industries" at the expense of American taxpayers. The subsidies could be eliminated, or at least cut, only by drastic changes in U.S. and European ways of doing business. Among its other proposals...
...From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery police often resort to drastic measures. Occasionally an Istanbul newspaper notes briefly and enigmatically that the body of a Turk or an Eastern European has been fished up from the dark waters of the Bosporus. One local definition of such events: "Death from over-interrogation...
According to the Telegraph account, the straw that broke the Chancellor's back was U.S. pressure. Washington officially denied this; but public and private advice from U.S. statesmen had clearly helped persuade Cripps that, after four years of the ordered economic life, Britain needed drastic new treatment...