Word: draconianism
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Rather than take such draconian action, Congress is more likely to search for new sources of revenue. Reagan has proposed to lop $27.5 billion off the 1983 deficit by closing a few business tax loopholes and taking various "management initiatives," but TIME's board considered that estimate fanciful. For example, the President said that $8.4 billion could come from faster leasing of oil drilling rights in U.S. coastal waters. Observed James McKie, an economics professor at the University of Texas: "That projection of revenue from offshore leasing shows an excessive degree of optimism...
...with Pertschuk to hear more arguments. By last week, however, Bailey and Clanton had switched sides. Clanton concluded that no cereal monopoly exists. Bailey decided that, monopoly or no, the proposed punishment was inappropriate. "To carve new cereal companies from the hides of existing ones," she said, would be "draconian...
...that appeals to compassion will do precious little to check the Reagan Administration's forays against the urban poor. It is thus a practical warning that we offer this nation's conservative leadership. When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared war on her cities with a series of draconian policies in many ways similar to President Reagan's, the cities erupted with a wave of violence that negated any minute economic gains from her initiatives. The magnitude of the Reagan cutbacks makes that scenario all too possible here. It would be ironic indeed if the Administration's quest for economic...
...result is a society that perversely manages to combine contradictory vices: profligacy on the part of the collective and scarcity for the individual; draconian control and hopeless inefficiency; laziness and zealotry; cynicism and dogmatism; subservience and bullying. These excesses, shortcomings and defects have been institutionalized in ways that almost seem designed to produce the kind of disaster that the Poles now face...
...dozen departments and agencies have objected to the reductions suggested by Stockman, who worked out a draconian plan to slash $38 billion from the already reduced 1983 spending levels for domestic programs. Most of the disputes were settled by a panel consisting of Stockman and top White House aides. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, for example, was able to save more than $50 million in export and trade assistance programs. Other disputes, unresolved, went to the President. He decided that Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan's $2.2 billion job-training budget would be trimmed by only $400 million, rather than...