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Louisiana's good-guy Governor has his hands full with bills sent to him by his lunatic-asylum legislature. Among them: a draconian antiabortion measure appended to a gutted bill that encouraged beating up flag burners and a record-labeling bill that threatens the state's music industry...
...White House, however, worries about the economic consequences of forcing sudden, drastic curbs in fossil-fuel use. From the Administration's point of view, draconian action seems highly debatable so long as the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is sketchy. "We are not at the point where we can bet the economy," says a Sununu aide...
Without doubt, the central issue in the upcoming campaign will be the state's ongoing fiscal crisis, which has plunged the Massachusetts bond rating to the lowest in the nation and raised the specter of draconian cuts in local aid and human services for the upcoming year...
Since the early 20th century, automakers have been tinkering half seriously with the idea of an electric car. Now, faced with potentially draconian air- quality regulations, automakers may be forced to start building such cars in earnest. Last week General Motors unveiled what it says is the most advanced electric car ever, a two-seater called the Impact...
...clouds on surface temperatures -- limits the ability to predict the greenhouse effect. "It's possible that Washington will see 96 days of temperatures over 100 degrees F in the year 2010," he says, "but it's also possible that the U.S. will be economically impoverished because it unilaterally imposed draconian measures in anticipation of a greenhouse warming that never arrived...