Word: draconianism
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...What I would like to see is flexibility with regard to when students can take their exams," he said. "I think in this regard Harvard is a little more Draconian than some [other] schools...
Portraying Weld as a callous politician, Kerry accused him of making "a political career out of picking on people on welfare" and called the governor's standards for welfare "Draconian...
...HELMS-BURTON ACT, IMPOSING EVEN harsher trade sanctions on Cuba, is draconian legislation. In proposing it, Senator Jesse Helms self-righteously stated that Canadians should be ashamed of themselves for cooperating with the Castro regime. Let's set the record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough...
...public mind if the government appears to be functioning. Signing will be his strategy, starting with a welfare-reform bill close to the version being proposed by a seven-member executive committee of the National Governors' Association. Clinton's veto of the Republican bill he once described as draconian has yielded changes in his favor. The Governors provided $4 billion more in child-care funding than the congressional conference report recommended...
...FRIEND? POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS HAVE PONDERED the question for centuries. Harry S Truman advised anyone looking for such a thing in Washington to buy a dog instead. But now the musing has taken on great urgency because friendship, it turns out, is one of the few exceptions to the draconian new congressional ethics rules that took effect on Jan. 1. These rules replace older, looser ones about accepting gifts, meals and junkets. The new standard in the House is "Zero Tolerance"--no freebies other than trifling gewgaws and home-state souvenirs from anyone at all, except family or friends...