Word: drastically
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Radcliffe College is facing a financial deficit, both in general endowment and in financial aid funds, which may force a drastic reduction in incoming scholarship students unless other sources of income are found...
...Americans in the 1920s and angered them in the 1950s. The trouble with progressivism, Silberman admits, was that too often it degenerated into shoddiness, partly because few teachers were properly trained to carry it out. For that reason, Silberman joins a host of previous school critics in urging a drastic upgrading in the training of U.S. teachers...
...five-hour meeting attended by many of the most powerful men in Italian business and state agencies, Merzagora stalked out and resigned. The state, he complained, was seeking domination of the firm. The news sent ripples of concern through Western Europe's business community. Amid rumors of a drastic organizational shakeup, the company's stock scraped a new low. Investors remembered that Giorgio Valerio, a bitter foe of state encroachment, was ousted as president last April by his rivals in the government...
...combat those who "are seeking the destruction of the social order through clandestine and violent means," he invoked Canada's drastic 1914 War Measures Act. Only twice before, during the two world wars, had the act been put in force; it had never been applied in peacetime. Backing up Trudeau's dramatic action was a proclamation by his Cabinet that "insurrection, real or apprehended, exists...
...report warns, in its section on "Attitudes and Responses to Minority-Group Programs." that "American law schools may become the focal point of further campus revolutions and disruption" if law school faculties and administrations do not avoid drastic splits on questions of academic policy and educational philosophy...