While other states have delayed income tax refunds by a week or two because of budget crunches, Missouri is the only one to impose such a drastic policy.
Hunt said hospital management needed to be able to rota more junior doctors to work at the weekend and his goal of tackling higher death rates among patients admitted at the weekend meant that he had no choice but to impose such a drastic change to their working conditions.
It's the largest single investment in the country's history and a vote of confidence by the government, which in December will need to impose a third straight year of drastic spending cuts, in the idea that more research will boost the economy.
Some of Mr. Bush's advisers have pointed to the Kennedy decision to impose a naval blockade on Cuba -- and to threaten drastic action if the missiles were not removed -- as an example of pre-emptive military action.
The most drastic measure city officials took was to impose a 30-day emergency curfew that prohibits children under 18 years old from being on the street after 9 p.m. unless they are with a parent or guardian.
My experience is not terribly unusual; people of all descriptions often take drastic measures to cope with fellow tenants who impose a musical reign of terror upon their neighbors.
It's a scenario that will swamp our federal and state budgets, and impose a vicious choice of either unprecedented tax hikes, overwhelming deficits or drastic cuts in our federal and state budgets.
The police had to "face up to reality", she told them, and if they didn't reform themselves she would change the law to do it for them, imposing a series of drastic changes including cutting off all their public funding.
The Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, quarantined West Point and Dolo Town, to the east of the capital, and imposed a night-time curfew as part of drastic measures to fight the disease.
But in Indonesia, rather than focus on stabilizing the rupiah, the IMF imposed a program that started with sudden and drastic fuel price increases, and expected it to be implemented by a reluctant government.
