That was no mistake but a deliberate decision, however: The victorious powers were keen not to repeat the mistakes of the Versailles Treaty, which imposed drastic payments on Germany following World War I -- payments that were so unbearably high that they led to the eventual collapse of the newly founded Weimar Republic.
"But when you suddenly make a drastic cut in payments from one month to the next, you are going to hurt people," she said.
The Times reported recently that the PLO's annual revenues have fallen from half a billion dollars to little more than $30 million, and the decline has forced drastic reductions in payments to universities, hospitals, social-service organizations, and the families of fighters in the occupied territories and elsewhere.
More Americans are going this route in lieu of drastic home loan payments, rising gas prices and increasingly high credit card bills.
Serwotka brazenly misinformed us in the pamphlets accompanying the ballots that "it is the low-paid majority who will be affected" by "drastic cuts [to] compensation payments", a recurring, and wholly untrue, theme throughout his campaign, and a sentiment that has scared these vulnerable members into striking against their better interests.
These different payment methods have drastic consequences.
Schwarzenegger, flanked by a coalition of state legislators, district superintendents, school board officials, and representatives from the California State Teacher's Association, assured a leery public that the drastic measure of eliminating monetary payment for teachers is necessary at a time when the state is mired in its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
In the autumn statement George Osborne, the chancellor, introduced drastic cuts to Short money – payments used to sustain the functioning of opposition parties.
What most Americans do agree on is that our health care delivery and payment system is in drastic need of an overhaul.
Cutting off those payments would be a drastic change for women's health care in this country.
