Word: draconianism
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...next decade as all the wars in the 20th century combined. The outgoing Clinton Administration, he promised, will ask Congress for an additional $100 million, boosting the total U.S. commitment to fighting AIDS worldwide to $325 million. Equally important, Gore confirmed that Washington is relaxing some of its more draconian trade restrictions on AIDS-ravaged countries...
...sources close to the government reported that Justice is still not amused. Throughout last week, the feds continued to favor the most draconian of penalties for Microsoft: a breakup of the software giant. The AOL-Time Warner merger may have altered the landscape today, the reasoning goes, but the government's antitrust case is built around events that happened in 1994 and 1995. Microsoft's business practices back then--stifling competition and bullying clients when it had market-share dominance--are the issue, not the company's position in today's media world...
According the commission's rules, candidates who exceed their spending limits will be expelled from the race. Before reversing himself yesterday, Levy had said he felt such punishment would be draconian, and the commission decided not to remove the Driskell/Burton ticket from the race...
...have violated the law, then what? Klein and his troops are scrupulously avoiding talking about a remedy (though they've had experts on retainer for months sorting through the options). The gamut of possible outcomes runs from a mild go-forth-and-sin-no-more to the truly Draconian stuff: forcing Microsoft to share its Windows source code with its competitors or carving up the company into the so-called Baby Bills (see chart). A judge's findings of fact are often a good indication of how far he's willing to go. It's like looking at a construction...
...Mark and Ray themselves say the provisions under which they were prosecuted are far too vague and far too draconian for them to be given a fair trial," she said...