Word: drastically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cuts ranging from 5% to 25% were ordered for all Douglas salaried employees making more than $12,000 a year-the first widespread salary cut since the drastic postwar cutbacks in 1946. The airframe unions promptly charged that the cut was a trick to undermine their position in current contract negotiations. But Board Chairman Donald Douglas Sr. denied the charge; he announced that the step was necessary to "help place the company in a stronger competitive position at this critical period...
...officials, who had seen hardened criminals come and harder criminals go, marveled at the results. A 20-year-old named Robert, jailed for rape, sat sullenly through his first week in Hanners' class. Inexplicably, he perked up the second week, began drawing cartoons with facility and underwent a drastic change of personality. An incredulous parole officer told Hanners: "I don't see how you did it, but you've made a little gentleman...
Future Republic? He sees the Kenya of the future as a republic (within the British Commonwealth "unless something very drastic happens"), committed politically to neither East nor West but guided by the Western principles of freedom, which have molded his own rise to influence. For all his forays into British socialistic thinking, he knows the need for Kenya to attract capital investment...
...pilfering is suspected. Since it opened six months ago, Employment Advisors has tested 1,498 employees (two refused and they lost their jobs) of more than 600 firms in Texas. The results, claims Employment Advisors' Partner Thomas J. Devine, 25, a University of Texas law graduate, are a drastic drop in pilfering and a noticeable improvement in employee morale...
...James B. Conant, president emeritus of Harvard, gave the first public report on his current study of U.S. junior high schools. Conant praised efforts to departmentalize the eighth grade (with four specialized teachers per class instead of one), but warned that "drastic revisions may be in order in many schools." Among them: a longer school day, a possible end to small schools. Then Conant loosed a blast. In his study so far (125 junior high schools in 17 states), he has found "an almost vicious overemphasis on athletics." Said Conant: "Colleges, of course, are by and large the worst sinners...