Word: draconianism
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...power away from the executive branch and place more responsibility in the hands of local government, like labor unions, grass-roots organizations, community groups. But to do that, he must redefine the military's role, separating the army from the police and the local section chiefs who established a draconian choke hold on rural Haiti...
Saddam, alas, is a slow learner who rarely gets the point of any lesson. Apparently his main intent in moving the troops was to pressure the U.N. into lifting its draconian sanctions on Iraq in a forthcoming vote. And he might have achieved this if he had just kept quiet. The U.S. and Britain were the only two permanent members of the Security Council bound to vote to sustain the sanctions. Russia wants Iraq to repay $6 billion in prewar military debts; France seeks to resume lucrative commercial ties with Baghdad; China has weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think...
...economy from growing so rapidly that it peaked before the 1996 election. At the Fed, meanwhile, the expected arrival of Clinton nominees Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen, who could be more tolerant of inflation, has the five holdover members groping for new formulas for battling it. The most draconian of these would raise interest rates whenever unemployment falls below 6.5%. (It now stands at 6.4%.) Such a rigid gimmick has little chance of being adopted. "Decision making relies on data, but increasingly on intuition as well," concedes a Fed insider. "The economy has grown more difficult to read...
...neither the Attorney General nor any other Cabinet officer will anytime in the near future have to countenance any cuts--draconian or otherwise--as a result of the amendment, which, as part of a new yearly ritual, will come to a vote in the Senate this Tuesday. It is not that the balanced budget amendment will not pass the Senate by the required two-thirds majority (the odds are about even on that), nor is it that the proposal wouldn't carry the 38 states necessary for ratification (it probably would); the Balanced Budget Amendment, if passed, will never result...
...Pentagon, which absorbs roughly one out of every five federal dollars, the leadership of all three services has braced for draconian cuts. Only a week before Defense Secretary Les Aspin was fired in December, officials confirmed that current funding would fall $50 billion short of supporting the force levels Clinton has called for through 1999. Indeed, Clinton's budget slashes $1.4 billion in defense procurement programs, almost half the overall $3.25 billion in cuts the President is recommending. But the proposals will encounter strenuous opposition from congressional Republicans and such leading Democrats as Sam Nunn of Georgia, who chairs...