Word: draconianism
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Still, the idea of outlawing all smoking is draconian. If enforced, the new law might prevent me from smoking in the privacy of my own room because it shares ventilation with other rooms. Will Harvard have to hold a smoking and non-smoking housing lottery...
Within five to ten years, the smoking problem will take care of itself: without draconian laws, without ridiculous penalties and without smokers. By 2000, smoking will cease to exist and so will the need for Cambridge's silly...
Still, the idea of outlawing all smoking is draconian. If enforced, the new law might prevent me from smoking in the privacy of my own room because it shares ventilation with other rooms. Will Harvard have to hold a smoking and non-smoking housing lottery...
Within five to ten years, the smoking problem will take care of itself: without draconian laws, without ridiculous penalties and without smokers. By 2000, smoking will cease to exist and so will the need for Cambridge's silly...
...active steelworkers. Something of a storm was stirred up last week when the New York Times reported that CBS, which has already pruned some 1,200 of its 15,500 employees, would ask its news division to slice $50 million from its $300 million budget. That draconian figure was denied by Chief Executive Officer Laurence Tisch, but the company admitted that it was still looking for ways to improve efficiency. Hundreds of other large corporations are planning or already carrying out slimming-down programs, including Exxon, Union Carbide and Time...