Word: draconian
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...company to win the right to offer their product to American consumers. During those years, every American that could have benefited from the drug—either by having a higher quality of life, or by being alive at all—has not, while her cohorts in less draconian countries have been living better and longer. Every time the FDA approves a new drug, as it just did for Symbicort, a new asthma medication, and touts the drug’s benefits, it ignores that its delay in approving the drug has deprived Americans of those benefits...
...graduate education and research. A spokesman for the council, Stuart Heiser, attributed the increase in part to efforts by the federal government to improve processing of student visas. Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez said that post-Sept. 11 visa rules were “pretty draconian.” He praised the International Office for learning how to effectively deal with the new regulations. “There was a period of time after 9/11 when the office was strained very heavily,” he said, adding that the office increased its staff to deal with...
...they do as they're told. There the point is to see if the subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more personal: Jigsaw, eventually revealed as John Kramer (Tobin Bell), is suffering from a fatal brain tumor, and he wants to prove that only having faced death can a man truly savor life. Or, as he puts it a bit more proscriptively in Saw II, "Those...
...practically broke down in tears: “Very seldom do things get to me. This one has really gotten to me.” And, as a “close the barn door” policy, the government immediately imposed draconian restrictions on U.S.-U.K. flights, which they have only gradually loosened...
...brought new energy to the stadium and to a historic rendition of The Game. If anything, those rules could be argued to have improved the football atmosphere by forcing students into the stadium at the most critical juncture of the contest.But for now, it appears that a more draconian plan is in the works. How many students will fill the seats as a result?—Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu.adi