Word: draconianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With pressure rising to do something about immigration, Clinton felt he had to get out and lead -- if for no other reason than to head off draconian legislative proposals already in the works. The President put forward measures last July to tighten screening of potential immigrants abroad, speed deportations of phony asylum seekers and add 600 officers to the border patrol. "We will not," he declared, "surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice...
Even now, with all hell breaking loose in Haiti, Bill Clinton won't relax his draconian refugee policy. Denying political asylum to large numbers of poor black Haitians "is what all this was about in the first place," says U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright -- and it still is. The Administration's sweet talk about restoring democracy in Haiti is merely tactical, a reflection of the assumption that those who enjoy liberty will stay put. Meanwhile on the ground, the situation worsens daily. "Anyone can be killed at any time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances...
Unions accept New York Post owner's draconian cuts...
...took some draconian legislation to get the wheels rolling. A California law with a distinctly puritanical streak mandates that by 1998 2% of each manufacturer's new cars sold in the state must be emission-free or stiff fines and penalties will be levied against the makers. Those standards match only one known product in the world market: the electric car. And they are just the beginning. Within another five years, the state's Clean Air Act will require that fully 10% of all new vehicles must comply -- a minimum of some 200,000 cars a year. Says Bill Sessa...
...wholesale price of energy. The front runner is a tax that would be levied on the amount of heat produced by a fuel, as measured in British thermal units. This BTU tax would achieve more pollution control than a straight sales tax and would be less draconian than a carbon levy, which might cripple the carbon-rich coal industry...