Word: draconianism
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...threat that Government borrowing to cover the deficit will gobble up the lendable money needed to finance business investment and consumer buying. A group calling itself the Bi-Partisan Budget Appeal, headed by former Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson, last week published an ad calling on Reagan to make draconian reductions in the deficit. The ad was signed by five former Secretaries of the Treasury and some 500 top lawyers, academicians and heads of blue-chip corporations...
...days after his inauguration, De la Madrid asked the 400-member National Congress to broaden the government's powers to crack down on graft. He announced a sharp cut in government subsidies for such basic commodities as sugar and gasoline. He sent a draconian budget to the Congress, calling for a $ 12 billion, or 50%, cut in the budget deficit for 1983. He also proposed an ambitious plan for government decentralization to help prevent urban paralysis in Mexico City, one of the world's most congested (pop. 16 million) and polluted capitals. The President then made a whirlwind...
During Rhodesia's long, bloody civil war, Prime Minister Ian Smith was a staunch defender of a white Rhodesia and imposed draconian measures against black opponents. Now that Rhodesia has become Zimbabwe and blacks govern in the capital of Harare, once Salisbury, Smith, 63, has had reason to ponder some of his past actions: the same emergency powers that he invoked to defend white minority rule are being used against...
Jimmy Chagra, 39, is accused of hiring a hitman in May 1979 to murder John H. Wood Jr., the federal judge who had been scheduled to preside over his narcotics trial. Wood, 63, had earned the sobriquet "Maximum John" for his draconian sentences to drug dealers. Wood was shot in the back with a high-powered rifle in the driveway of his San Antonio home on May 29, the day originally set for Jimmy Chagra's trial. (Chagra was subsequently convicted on the drug charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...believe in a decentralized system in which we have a chance to talk over the problem with the masters. I don't think a uniform, draconian solution, can be imposed on all Houses. That does usually provoke resentment and evasion of various kinds...