1.   Berlusconi argues, not wrongly, that the notoriously slow and uneven Italian legal system requires drastic reform.

2.   A less drastic reform would allow the fund to extend loans to wayward countries, but at a higher interest rate.

3.   But drastic institutional reforms seem sure to be left for another day.

4.   Drastic reforms are required.

5.   During the presidential primaries, Republicans ran advertisements attacking the liability system and calling for drastic reform.

6.   Few people disagree about the need for drastic reform in Indonesia.

7.   Having witnessed such drastic reforms in their short lives, none regarded entry into the WTO as such a revolutionary event.

8.   If drastic reforms are attempted in an economy in repose, everyone involved is bound to bear a grudge.

9.   It also makes drastic reform of the tax code almost impossible politically.

10.   Medical care in America needs drastic reform, says Arnold S. Relman, a nationally recognized physician and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.