Word: draconianism
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...world's population growth rate during the '70s has led to overconfidence and the mistaken idea that "efforts to deal with [population] problems can therefore be relaxed." McNamara points out that the global figures for the past decade have been distorted by the experience of China, where a draconian birth control program that includes financial rewards and penalties to encourage one-child families has reduced the fertility rate by half...
...change comes at a critical time for Mitterrand, who was elected in 1981 on a wave of support for Socialist-led change. For the past two years, the President has been forced to administer draconian economic medicine, including higher taxes, currency controls and widespread layoffs in ailing industries. As a result, unemployment has risen to about 10% (vs. 7.2% when Mitterrand was elected), and the President's popularity rating has sunk to an all-time low of 35%. In last month's elections for the European Parliament, the Socialist share of the vote dropped to 20.8% from...
...blaming its policies for causing riots last month that left more than 50 people dead. Leftists around the world accuse the IMF of trying to impose capitalist values, and Finance Ministers in developing countries frequently protest that it is interfering in internal politics by forcing them to adopt draconian economic measures...
...University as an "oasis of free speech" is one where Adolph Hitler can goose-step onto campus and "speak freely in favor of anti-Semitism" (Crimson, 5 April), while the victims and opponents of Nazi death camps and slaughter are tried for "political crimes" by a revived Draconian Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). That Harvard brands students and others who protest genocide as "enemies of free speech" while guaranteeing "academic freedom" to the war criminals who commit genocide is an outrageous provocation. The sick sociopaths who run this place have outdone in their own words any spoof...
...public offices were closed and shuttered. In Nancy 10,000 marchers took to the streets, in Longwy 15,000, in Metz 20,000. In a dramatic climax to nearly a week of unrest, the entire region was delivering an ultimatum to President François Mitterrand: repeal a draconian restructuring plan, announced two weeks ago, that would eliminate 25,000 of the stricken steel industry's 90,000 jobs...