Word: draconianism
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Such arguments undermine the government's case on its weakest leg: proving that consumers have somehow been hurt by Microsoft's actions. The more Microsoft can make its behavior seem proconsumer, the less appropriate the government's draconian remedy will appear--and the more likely the higher courts will toss the case back to Jackson for a less severe punishment...
...annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society last month, he didn't expect a warm welcome. The audience was packed with his firm's sworn enemies, doctors who view the $26 billion-a-year health-care giant as the poster child for all that ails managed care, from draconian cost controls and reams of paperwork to heavy-handed negotiating tactics. Last fall the organization lobbied the state attorney general to investigate Aetna's allegedly abusive practices...
...debts. And as Juntikka interprets them, Garcia would not be able to seek relief in Chapter 7. Even if by some chance she could prove her case in court, he says, the process would be lengthy and costly. "People aren't going to be able to deal with these draconian measures," he says. As a result, some people will be permanently indebted to credit-card companies, others will see their wages attached, some may lose their homes. "This is going to cause so much misery," he says...
...said the Danes seized on Hitler's more lenient attitude toward Nordic peoples--what he termed "the least Draconian occupation in Europe...
When Ramasundaram followed the nurses' advice, the results were dramatic. The state's population growth rate has dropped from 1.5% in 1991 to 1% in 1999, compared with 1.8% for India as a whole. "You don't need draconian measures for family planning," Ramasundaram says. "Simply remove the shackles and let people do what they were supposed...