Word: draconianism
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...question now: How long will the official chill on dissent last? While the repercussions may be less draconian than in the past, Deng has made it clear that Western-style democratic reform is out of the question. Indeed, some Western China watchers believe the Dengists have been extraordinarily lenient with the demonstrators, in part so that they could use the continuing disorder as an excuse to cut off political discussion...
...revolutionary onslaught," which was sweeping the country, amounted to a "coordinated attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall...
...revert to its more traditional limited function. Hiring individuals for the staff who understand and accept this is obviously central. Legislating formal, explicit constraints should be avoided. Just as hard cases tend to make bad law, so specific abuses of public trust ought not necessarily prompt reactions either draconian or permanent...
...corporation but GM, perhaps, the cutbacks would have to be described as draconian. But the world's largest automaker has a total of 223 plants, which assembled some 9.3 million cars, trucks and buses last year. The facilities marked for closure produced roughly 600,000 cars and trucks for 1986, and include the company's oldest factory still in operation, a 67-year- old Cadillac Fleetwood plant in Detroit. As Smith pointed out, six new GM plants, in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Louisiana (four open, one due to begin production next month and one scheduled for 1987), have replaced...
...League of Women Voters, usually their ally in such matters, opposes the referendum mandate to clean up hazardous waste, saying, among other arguments, that it provides no funding source and is impracticial in its demands. They argue that the measures it requires are too Draconian to be carried out, and instead support a version now under preparation in the Senate, which has not come far enough in the legislative process to become law by the November 4 election. The League of Women Voters has been active in supporting this measure...