Word: draconian
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Much of the pressure behind SB 1070 is rooted in myths about crime and undocumented immigration. Contrary to conventional wisdom, crime rates have been decreasing in Arizona for years—and it’s not because of draconian policing laws. Undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the average citizen for fear of being deported. This is why the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police has opposed SB 1070: It compromises their ability to do their job. The law makes no distinction between drug traffickers and a 25-year-old mother or father searching...
...AlcoholEDU is tedious, it serves as an introduction to healthy drinking habits for the many freshman teetotalers entering Harvard. Mr. Knudson argues that harsh penalties would better control binge drinking, but he is looking myopically at the short term. What happens to students who live in a world of draconian punishments for binge drinking after they graduate from college? They may well resort to the bottle when times get tough. DAPA and AlcoholEDU instill safe drinking habits in students, lessons that last well beyond college...
...plan put forth by Liebman and his colleagues fixes the Social Security solvency problem without requiring draconian tax hikes or damaging benefit cuts. Moreover, it’s not just an academic proposal: public advocates include a number of Congressional Republicans, most notably and recently Paul Ryan...
...keeping the IMF at bay: its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is a potential rival in France's 2012 presidential election.) Others, like French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, have criticized Germany for making impossible demands on Athens by saying that E.U. support is only conceivable if Greece accepts draconian austerity measures that will shrink its economy further and make it more difficult to pay off its debts...
...most beautiful bridge spans, connecting the city to Miami Beach through palm-tree-filled islands fringed with red mangroves. But beneath the tranquil expanse sits one of South Florida's most contentious social problems: a large colony of convicted sex offenders, thrown into homelessness in recent years by draconian residency restrictions that leave them scant available or affordable housing. They live in tents and shacks built from cast-off supplies, clinging to pylons and embankments, with no running water, electricity or bathrooms. Not even during a recent cold spell, when nighttime temperatures dropped into the 30s, could they move into...