Word: draconianism
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Faced with the largest budget gap in the country's history, the president proposes draconian cuts which focus on social services. He especially targets Medicaid and aid to local governments...
...Harvard have been, at the moment, extremely fortunate not to have imposed... the kind of draconian measures that other institutions had to impose," he says...
...Harvard have been, at the moment, extremely fortunate not to have imposed...the kind of draconian measures that other institutions had to impose," he says...
That is also true for the draconian cutbacks at giant manufacturing firms. IBM has pared 32,000 jobs from its payroll since 1985 and plans to reduce its work force by another 17,000 this year. The latest moves will trim IBM's work force to some 356,000 as Big Blue struggles to regain a share of the worldwide computer market that has slipped from 35% a decade ago to less than 25% today. "We've cut layers of management," says a company spokesman. "These are our ways of staying alive and being competitive." In Detroit, Ford, Chrysler...
...federal researcher at whose urging Times Beach, Mo., was permanently evacuated in 1982 because of a dioxin scare has conceded that the draconian action was a mistake and that newer data suggest dioxin is far less toxic than previously believed. While some environmental scientists dispute the conclusion, the Environmental Protection Agency has launched a review of its strict dioxin standards, leaving the public confused about what to believe...