Word: drastically
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...secret that we at Dartboard are regular "Jeopardy!" watchers. Or, at least, that we used to be. But since the new season has begun, we just can't get the thought out of our minds that Alex Trebek and company have taken the show into a drastic, kamikaze nose dive...
...council is going to take a drastic turn," said current council secretary Olivia Verma '00, who ran unsuccessfully for vice-president. "I think it's kind of sad that [the council] will be de-politicized if Beth and Sam's mandate is carried out," she said...
...officials believe that the killers, rebels against the Rwandan Tutsi government of Paul Kagame, fled west back to bases in Congo -- a disheartening prospect since border-crossing raids brought Rwanda and then-Zaire to the brink of war in 1996. Kagame's solution then was drastic: lending military and financial support to the bush rebellion of Laurent Kabila, which swept westward across Zaire to the capital of Kinshasa and renamed the country Congo with Kabila as its new president...
...drastic fall of the stock market should come as a surprise to no one [NATION, Nov. 3]. After all, how much longer were we going to support 22-year-old fund managers with their red suspenders and $200 lunches? BRIAN SMITH Miami...
...situations are so drastic, though. Shrier, Knight and Davis, despite the various strange things they've had written on their papers, agree that comments on papers are useful and are often a good way to get to know professors. "The teacher's personality shines through in the comments," Shrier says. "For example, [Dorot] Professor [of the Archeology of Israel] Lawrence Stager writes large, rambling, loving mini-essays at the end of each student essay because he's a large, rambling, loving kind...