Word: drastically
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...gradual" return to more democracy in Brazil-as long, it was clearly implied, as his countrymen continue to behave themselves. That promise may be difficult to keep. Figueiredo has pledged to follow his predecessors' domestic and international policies-meaning, among other things, that there will be no drastic changes in the country's economic model...
Snapping is a word coined to describe the sudden, drastic alteration or even total transformation of personality that apparently occurs in mass psychological therapies and spiritualistic cults like est, TM. Hare Krishna, the Moonies, Scientology, the Born-Again Christian movement, the Children of God, the Love Family, and so forth. An interested observer goes to a cult meeting, becomes convinced, and the effect is as if someone had reached out and changed the channel on his mind's television screen--snap--and now he gets channel 12 instead of channel 5. To reach him, you have to broadcast...
...drastic difference from the 1920s is that Munsonians no longer control their own town. The Ball Corp., now a diversified multinational, has moved its important operations elsewhere, and the Ball family itself is scattered, with diminished clout in Muncie. The local economy is now controlled from the out-of-town board rooms of large national and international corporations-and from Washington. Says Caplow: "The Federal Government has in effect taken over all the social welfare functions in Muncie. The care of the sick, the poor, the aged and the delinquent is all controlled by Washington...
...keep your nose clean, but you don't cause a ruckus about what other people are doing. People around here will accept just about anything before they get upset. The important thing is to make sure things stay quiet and calm. No one in Muncie ever does anything drastic...
...meantime, quarterback Larry Brown was skillfully directing a new-look Harvard offense, one that had received a drastic facelift at the hands of Dr. Joe Restic during the previous week's practice sessions...