Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Wachovia have also taken write-downs, though their measures were not as drastic.
Still, this week's measures were nowhere near as drastic as those adopted in the first weeks after the collapse of the twin towers.
Alcohol is depicted as either fun, as in the red wine fests on the ABC sitcom "Cougar Town," or it's a life-destroying scourge that requires drastic measures, as on "Intervention" on A&E or "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," which returned last week on VH1 for a fourth season.
While it was undoubtedly true that neither Griffin nor Chandler — who are, of course, far from being Tildens — used quite as drastic measures against her as they would have against a man, nevertheless in many of the rallies, when they were fighting their hardest, they were put to rout buy the fierce shots from Miss Wills's racquet.
The Bloomberg administration is planning to take such drastic measures as it struggles to close huge deficits projected for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
The Rentenmark held its value, helped by such drastic measures as the firing of a quarter of the government's workforce.
For the next hundred years, physicians and patients focused on bringing down fevers, sometimes with such drastic measures as cold baths and alcohol rubs.
Crippled by drought, Venezuela's government has taken drastic measures as water levels at the country's largest hydroelectric dam plunge to critical levels.
John Harris alludes to the so-called "council tax freeze grant" (Somerset takes drastic measures as votes to cut £28m of help for vulnerable, 15 September).
The panel, a committee of the Institute of Medicine, said such drastic measures as closing medical schools and reducing class sizes, as recommended by some other studies, were not needed now.
