Word: draconianism
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...FEDERAL BUDGET cuts that will strip Harvard of some $14 million of funding can accurately be called "Draconian." The manner in which the cuts were done can also legitimately be termed irresponsible...
Calling the cuts "Draconian," President Bok said Tuesday that Harvard would fight them in "whatever role seems most useful" -- by co-ordinating opposition or by lobbying in Washington. At the same time, he said, appeals for funds will go to foundations, corporations and individuals who "used to give thousands of dollars but thought that was kind of ridiculous when the government was giving millions...
...Declares Los Angeles' Principal Sid Thompson: "For teachers and students alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket and severely beat...
...arranged this draconian method of enforcing Poland's building code was Zakopane's staunchly orthodox Mayor Stanislaw Bafia; in his view, the punishment fitted the crime. The capital of a scenic region billed in the brochures as "the Switzerland of Poland," Zakopane had in recent years become known among smart Poles as a good place not only to take a vacation but also to turn an easy zloty or two in illegal housing, building and real estate. As the dimensions of Zakopane's non-Communist economy were revealed in the wake of the November raid, one Warsaw...
...offense that is most often winked at. In the past, the few defendants who have been convicted on the charge have usually been put on probation. But when Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth came up for sentencing last week, Federal Court Judge R. Dixon Herman gave the priest a Draconian two years in prison-to run concurrently with the six years he is serving for his role in draft-board raids in 1967 and 1968. Judge Herman sentenced Sister Elizabeth to a year and a day in jail...