Word: draconianism
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Pressplay is a little less draconian. For $24.95 a month you get 100 downloads, and the tunes don't expire as long as you remain a subscriber. You also get to burn 20 tracks onto a CD. Downloads are especially efficient: mere seconds on broadband and minutes via modem. This was refreshing after all the transfer errors I'm used to on Morpheus and its underground kin. Now all Pressplay needs is a catalog large enough that I might want 20 songs a month from...
...Pressplay is a little less draconian. For $24.95 a month you get 100 downloads, and the tunes don't expire as long as you remain a subscriber. You also get to burn 20 tracks onto a CD. Downloads are especially efficient: mere seconds on broadband and minutes via modem. This was refreshing after all the transfer errors I'm used to on Morpheus and its underground kin. Now all Pressplay needs is a catalog large enough that I might want 20 songs a month from...
...Koreans, on the other hand, see the Japanese as a ruthless wartime occupation force comparable to that of Nazi Germany, Japan's World War II ally. They point to Japan's draconian policies of the 1930s and '40s: the kidnapping of thousands of girls and women to act as so-called comfort women for Japanese troops, the dragooning of 4 million Koreans to work as slave labor in mines and factories, and the often brutal dismantling of Korean cultural identity?the forced use of Japanese names and language is one notorious example. "It is very clear that Japan tried...
ZIMBABWE Last Chances International pressure appeared to pay off as the government unexpectedly postponed draconian press and labor legislation, saying the bills would be revised. Although Southern African leaders agreed to give President Robert Mugabe a "chance" to hold free and fair presidential elections in March, E.U. and U.S. officials have threatened sanctions against the regime, including the freezing of its international assets. Britain offered a reprieve to some 100 Zimbabwean asylum seekers facing deportation...
...sorts of new rules have been enacted under the unassailable heading of “security measures.” Hoyts’ cinemas in the hinterlands no longer allow movie-goers to bring bags into movies—consumers are meant to believe that these draconian measures are for our own security, and not for the security of Hoyts’ tremendous concession markup. The Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square, whose glass elevators tourists eager to zoom 45 stories above Manhattan have sardined into during countless past Thanksgivings, this year required room keys for entry into its lobby...