Word: draconianism
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...White House meetings, the hard-liners spoke of draconian measures. I kept telling the President to remember Hungary. Vice President Bush and Weinberger and their supporters urged tough talk to the Russians in private and to the world. It was suggested that the President publicly demand the release of Lech Walesa, the leader...
...godlike creatures known as adults. In 1939, the year of America's last idyl, friends and family play out their lives in the Midwestern mill town, impervious to the Great Depression and the war that has already begun a world away. Here Tommy's parents lay down draconian laws, then act with well-meaning hypocrisy. The word Negro is never mentioned in the presence of a black steward because "the condition it described was thought to be embarrassing at best and irreversible in any case, and polite people did not call attention to the ill fortune of others...
...Asian nations have been afflicted with heroin. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are largely free of hard drugs, thanks to firm law enforcement and strongly held traditional values. China, Indonesia and the Philippines serve primarily as transit points for shipment to the U.S. and Europe. Singapore, with its draconian antidrug laws, honest and efficient police force and intensive rehabilitation programs, reports a decline in heroin addiction...
Drawbacks to the experiments with fixed sentencing are already apparent. They have contributed to prison overcrowding. Average sentences are often much longer-draconian in the view of some critics-partly because of what has been called the "crime-of-the-week syndrome," which impels politicians to increase mandatory sentences after the occurrence of a headline-grabbing offense. Moreover, inmates no longer have much to gain by participating in work and education programs, which together with the hopelessness of long sentences has made prisoner control more difficult...
...total of 10 students who Epps had lined up tutors to "warn." Should we continue to exercise our democratic rights to protest (which we unreservedly will), we will be tried by the administration's kangaroo court, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), which was set up to enforce Draconian legislation and purge "undesirables" in the aftermath of the '69 Harvard strike. Never mind that the CRR is "inactive" became students have boycotted elections to it as a matter of principle for more than 10 years...