Word: drastically
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Like a latter-day Mongol horde, the fighting men who serve the U.S. around the world are followed by their wives and children-484,000 of them in 1060. In a drastic effort to reduce the flow of dollars abroad, President Eisenhower ordered the number of U.S. military dependents overseas reduced to 200,000 within two years. This may cut the U.S. payments deficit as, much as $500 million a year, counting what the Pentagon"spends on dependents and the $1,000 a year each dependent is estimated to spend abroad. But last week, at one of the lushest dependent...
Wilson also discussed the impact on the novel of the revolutionary changes which have transformed English society in the past 15 years since the end of the war. Almost all contemporary British novelists, Wilson noted, have been faced with the need to adjust to drastic changes in their respective social classes...
...culture was the Civil War, whose aftermath destroyed the New England Tradition almost as completely as the October Revolution broke the continuity of Russian culture. (Certain disturbing similarities between present-day America and Soviet Russian culture and society may be partly due to these seismic breaks, much more drastic than anything in European History, including the French Revolution.) The New England Culture was simply pushed aside by history, dwindling to provincial gentility...
There followed a period of rethinking among the Whites. Some supporters of apartheid called for a "new deal" and a drastic revision of discriminatory legislation. Verwoerd's position as leader of the Nationalist Party was said to be weakening...
...Welensky was outraged that the word had even been mentioned. The Monckton report is "the death knell of federation," he snapped. "I and my colleagues reject it out of hand." Most white Rhodesians agreed. But no matter what the whites said or thought, Britain was clearly determined to make drastic changes when all sides sat down to discuss the new constitution in December. Addressing the Tories' national convention at Scarborough last week. Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod declared: "I cannot promise you a popular colonial policy, but this is the road we must walk, and we can walk no other...