Word: draconianism
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...robber barons. Or settle for the five beers. And shed a tear for Harvard’s stellar football team. Nobody will watch them—far fewer Elis, the many students who will party on this side of the river, and the canny students heading to the less-draconian alumni tailgate. Our athletes just might be the biggest losers in the situation...
...responded grudgingly, slowly falling until finally, on the last day of the meeting, it had dipped into a range considered normal anywhere else in the world. By the next day, though traffic was back to its usual chaotic state and the index had shot back into "unhealthy" territory. And Draconian measures to keep the air clean for a three-day summit would be considerably more difficult to impose over a 17-day sporting festival...
...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...