Word: draconianism
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...draconian measures contained within the Crime Bill reveal Reno's absolute failure in influencing the debate and consequently policy. Is politics then being privileged in dictating agency behavior...
...June 1991, placing third out of six candidates in Russia's first direct presidential elections. Despite losing his bid for Yeltsin's chair, he seized upon the 6 million votes he received as license to launch a never ending campaign for the presidency. His platform lurches from the draconian to the absurd, from calls for summary executions to a proposal to turn the Kremlin into a round-the-clock entertainment center, with museums, restaurants and bars. One theme, however, has remained firm ever since he first sounded it in 1991: "I say it quite plainly -- when I come to power...
With pressure rising to do something about immigration, Clinton felt he had to get out and lead -- if for no other reason than to head off draconian legislative proposals already in the works. The President put forward measures last July to tighten screening of potential immigrants abroad, speed deportations of phony asylum seekers and add 600 officers to the border patrol. "We will not," he declared, "surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice...
Even now, with all hell breaking loose in Haiti, Bill Clinton won't relax his draconian refugee policy. Denying political asylum to large numbers of poor black Haitians "is what all this was about in the first place," says U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright -- and it still is. The Administration's sweet talk about restoring democracy in Haiti is merely tactical, a reflection of the assumption that those who enjoy liberty will stay put. Meanwhile on the ground, the situation worsens daily. "Anyone can be killed at any time," says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the exiled President, and late-night disappearances...
Unions accept New York Post owner's draconian cuts...