Word: draconianism
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...Internet is thriving. It's transforming how we live in ways too numerous to count. Yes, some people are moaning - or rejoicing - that the web is hitting a wall. But that's a version of Washington-speak, where a tiny decrease in the rate of increase is termed a draconian...
...expect the students' position to be examined by the Ad Board, but we don't expect the Ad Board to take any draconian action," said Eliot House Master Lino Pertile...
...ARRESTED. ROBERT S. GORDON,42, former Cisco Systems executive accused of embezzling $10 million from the networking equipment maker and one of its smaller partners; in San Jose, California. ARRESTED. BADARUDDIN ISMAIL, 56, Malaysian human- rights activist and the 10th person arrested this year under the country's draconian Internal Security Act; in Kuala Lumpur. DIED. DAVID WALKER, 56, former astronaut who commanded the 1989 Atlantis voyage and launched the Magellan probe that mapped the surface of Venus; in Houston, Texas. Walker also flew on three other U.S. space shuttle missions, including the 1984 Discovery, which was the first successful...
...effective program to fight climate change need not involve huge increases in energy prices or draconian rules that choke industries at the smokestacks. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends a range of new devices, including hybrid gas-electric cars that run half the time on a traditional internal-combustion engine and the rest of the time on batteries, boosting gas mileage considerably. Also promising is the combined cycle-gas turbine that can be used in place of traditional turbines to generate electricity. The new hardware operates at up to 60% efficiency, nearly twice that...
...latter point, Leiter concurs-his second critique of Harvard involved its policy towards its junior faculty. He cites Harvard's traditionally draconian tenure procedures, in which promising doctoral students and junior faculty are encouraged to make their reputations elsewhere and then return to the University and receive tenure, as a complementary reason for the department's loss of stature...