Word: drastically
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...Exporters. In 1947, spurred on by the Attlee government's Town and Country Planning Act, local authorities throughout Britain began to corset the nation's expanding cities with "green belts"-strips of unspoiled country in which no new housing or industrial construction is permitted. More drastic yet, the cities themselves began organized relocation of their citizens, either to smaller cities eager for labor and industry or to the "new towns"-self-contained communities complete with factories, such as Stevenage (pop. 30,000), which were thrown up by the planners' decrees. So far, 420,000 Britons have been...
Back in Tokyo, Kishi had a run-in with yet another Minister of Commerce. While the minister was absent on a tour of the Dutch East Indies, Kishi and one of his former Manchurian aides drew up a drastic plan to increase bureaucratic control of Japanese industry and to draft into the factories some 250,000 women, ranging from housewives and geisha girls to prostitutes and the actresses of the Takarazuka Girls Opera-an outfit that was owned by Kishi's boss. The Commerce Minister raced back to Tokyo and denounced the plan as "sheer Communism!" Kishi again resigned...
...written by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, outlined an agenda for the third session of Canada's 24th Parliament. With his unbeatable conservative majority (208 of the 265 Commons seats), Diefenbaker could undoubtedly ram through virtually any law he wanted, but in prosperous Canada the Prime Minister wants no drastic changes. The speech's most talk-stirring feature was what it left out: for the first time since the Korean war began, Canada's armed forces went unmentioned. Instead, Vanier read-in both English and French -of the government's hope for a "controlled disarmament...
Physicians have long suspected that drastic measures like the code of Hammersmith might halt the advance of resistant "hot" staph, but no such sweeping trial (involving 452 staph infections in 5,239 patients) had been made before. The Hammersmith team concludes confidently that by these means, along with old-fashioned hygiene, antisepsis and asepsis (TIME, Oct. 12), the hot staph can be checked...
...than stay and help do something about the schools, they resort to private schools or the suburbs.'' Yet "a first-rate school system is within the grasp of New York City." The job begins with recovery of the purpose of the schools-education. It begins with "a drastic overhaul" of school administration -complete divorce from the city's politicians. And perhaps most of all, urged Heald, it begins with privileged citizens' remembering that "it is your children who are being shortchanged...