Word: draconian
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...Lisa Peterson, a spokesperson for the American Kennel Club, considers the Albuquerque ordinance draconian, but acknowledges it is part of a nationwide trend. Ordinances similar to Albuquerque's have been passed or are being considered by 138 local communities, along with many states. She is concerned that the new laws punish responsible pet owners and breeders, and could even jeopardize the existence of some breeds. In Denver, for example, pitbulls are outlawed completely. This has forced owners to flee the city or go underground, where they keep their dogs behind closed shades and take them out only under the cloak...
...doesn't take much to whip up Britain's irascible press: "Secret courts imposing draconian Islamic justice operate across Britain," read one paper's front-page splash last week, following a BBC report suggesting that observance of Sharia law is spreading...
...City Council and Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 gave a long-awaited nudge to the Cambridge Licensing Commission (CLC) in favor of loosening its Puritanical rules. For the past two decades, the CLC and its ally-in-arms, the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF), have implemented draconian policies toward restaurants’ closing hours and their ability to serve liquor. Thankfully, Reeves and the city councillors seem to have awoken to the damaging effect those policies have had on the Square’s atmosphere and liveliness. Councillor Michael A. Sullivan told the roundtable discussion Monday...
Chávez (whose other recent proposals include a draconian curfew and a program to take away the vehicle of anyone arrested for—not convicted of—drunk driving) wants to give the state the power to coerce the most vulnerable members of society into taking medicine, supposedly for their own good. Under a New York-style “Kendra’s Law,” the courts can define who is “mentally ill,” and—even before an individual has done anything wrong—force them...
...rewrote our economic memory. The Great Depression had been blamed largely on free markets, underlining the need for draconian government supervision of the economy. Yet Friedman argued that free markets had not caused the Great Depression. Rather, in A Monetary History of the United States, written with the great economist Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Friedman said it was horrifying incompetence by the government, specifically the Federal Reserve, that had caused and prolonged the Depression. He showed in minute detail how failures of monetary policy--occasionally motivated by the anti-Semitism of some Fed governors--had created catastrophe from what could have...