Word: draconianism
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Even a Democrat-controlled, Al Gore-inspired Congress would shrink from passing draconian emissions-control measures. And the current Republican House and Senate are unlikely to consider such regulations no matter how many scientists are convinced that global warming is real. Other industrial nations probably won't do much better, and poor countries can't afford to try. A more realistic strategy, some scientists argue, is to spend what research money there is figuring out how best to deal with global warming when it comes. It's already too late, they say, to do much else...
...bare deep divisions within the GOP over the right way to reshape the program. Dole's bill would shift control of funding for welfare to the states in the form of block grants. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), who is leading the conservative opposition on the Senate floor, believesmore draconian measures must be taken to discourage out-of-wedlock births. His amendments would ban cash assistance to unwed mothers under 18, anddeny increased aid to women who have more children while they are receiving welfare...
...contained such information as records of every long-distance call into and out of the city. Old-fashioned, low-tech ruthlessness was not beneath him, however. In addition to allegedly being connected to at least three killings in the U.S., he was the one who established the cartel's draconian methods of policing its own ranks. As insurance, the dealers to whom cocaine is consigned put up not only cash and property, but also human collateral -- the names and addresses of relatives in Colombia...
...functions. Others have suggested imposing such a surtax on all insurance premiums. Says Bruce Kelly, the director of government relations at Mayo: "We endorse a set-aside program to fund research and teaching.'' But a delegation of teaching-hospital administrators who visited Capitol Hill in mid-May, sensing the draconian political climate, made only an exceedingly modest plea: if Medicare funding is cut, say, 13%, O.K., cut us 13% too -- but no more...
...April he has bobbed up in Livonia, Palm Springs and Orlando, Florida. At each venue he works the Oklahoma City bombing more snugly into his world view as "yet another foot stomp on the part of the new-world-order crowd to manipulate the population," softening it up for draconian new antiterrorism measures. At each venue, it seems, there are more reporters. At each Koernke touches a few more people...