Word: drastically
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...campaign statement, delivered in a speech on Oct. 5, 1968, and made a point that is no less true today. Yet now, in the near-unanimous opinion of U.S. scientists, President Nixon is ignoring what Candidate Nixon said. At a time when drastic, all-around budget trimming is obviously necessary -confronting the Administration with some painful choices-sensible scientists do not expect research appropriations to keep growing at the beanstalk rate of the early 1960s, but they have hoped to maintain reasonable, normal growth. Instead, they have suffered cutbacks and hold-downs for two years, and now the Administration...
...sideline the incompetent or dishonest. While his motive is also to entrench his own men in these vital posts, observers agree that the caliber of his appointees has been an improvement. He is now embarked on a new cycle of hirings and firings that promises to bring a drastic overhaul of South Viet Nam's entire military administration...
...personally am convinced that if the student body votes the establishment and funding of this new Council, they will notice a drastic departure from past student representative ineffectuality...
There is no doubt that the quota system is in need of drastic change. Permits to import oil are handed out by the Government to individual U.S. refiners. The system of distributing permits is wide open to favoritism, and the companies that get permits can make fortunes by selling cheap foreign oil at the U.S. price. That gives refiners a reason to resist changes in the system...
...system that did work and in large measure still does; a brilliant, highly adaptable system, heir to the Enlightenment and classic democracy, with innumerable, ingenious, local accretions. But the country has become too complex and the long-hidden inequities too glaring for the system to continue without drastic...