Word: draconianism
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...thoughtless and somewhat disruptive trick, the Ad Board responded with a bomb. And unless there are compelling facts justifying the Draconian sentence which haven't come out yet, we think the Ad Board should drastically reduce or overturn its decision when it hears the students' appeal at its meeting tomorrow afternoon...
...MIAMI. Contemplating the results of studies like those made at Rollins, University of Miami, Fla., President Edward Foote in 1981 began taking even more draconian measures. He ended the private university's undergraduate education program and told the graduate schools of nursing, law, education and medicine to pay their way. He stopped admitting virtually any warm undergraduate body that showed up, and began cutting enrollment from 12,000 toward 8,500, setting stiffer standards for entering freshmen. At the same time, Miami established schools of communications, architecture and international studies. Associate Provost James Ash openly admits that the purpose...
...organization expressed concern at Botha's mention of new laws, saying, "The government is going to broaden the already Draconian provisions of the Internal Security Act. The effect of this is that a de facto state of emergency will exist throughout our country...
...alternative? Not to continue spending as before, acknowledged Democrat Gray. "We are going to have deficit reduction, and it is going to affect everybody," he remarked. At best, Reagan's opponents hope to slash the Pentagon budget enough so that reductions in civilian outlays will be less draconian than the President proposes. But those cuts would still be severe. And this year the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, despite its murky status, ensures that the issue will not slide...
...newspaper editorials, Nigerians resoundingly opposed the government's application for a new $2.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Although the money was badly needed to keep pace with the debt, Babangida suspended negotiations with the IMF. Instead, he shrewdly used his mandate to impose many of the draconian austerity measures that the IMF had suggested. Among them: doubling the price of gasoline and tripling the price of diesel fuel by dropping state oil subsidies, cutting wages, and allowing the naira, the national currency, to depreciate by 20% in an effort to stimulate sagging exports. "It was a courageous...