Word: draconianism
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...been slowed by a recession, the state of Michigan has been paralyzed by what some call a depression. The state's well-being depends on the automobile; with Chrysler faltering, and Ford and General Motors cutting back, Great Lakes State residents have been especially hard hit. Even after Draconian cuts in the state budget--including $100 million from appropriations for higher education--Michigan still faces a $150-million deficit...
...rounds, the Great Budget Battle of 1981 looked like a shadowboxing exhibition in which the Reagan Administration easily prevailed over little more than token opposition. But last week it suddenly seemed to become more of a slugfest, with the outcome in some doubt. The President's program of draconian cuts in spending and taxes came under increasing attack in both houses of Congress, and from both right and left...
That characteristically blunt comment sums up the Reagan Administration's side of an intensifying national debate about the President's plans to slash federal spending and taxes. As the draconian nature of the program has begun to sink in around the country, newspaper stories, TV shows and liberal critics in and out of Congress increasingly have portrayed the program as one that redistributes income from poor to rich-specifically by reducing benefits the needy have come to rely on while reserving the program's greatest tax savings for the already well-off. Implicit in much of this...
...aroused fears of a possible famine this winter. Nearly 1.5 million head of sheep and goats have been herded into neighboring Pakistan by Afghan refugees, for example. Farmers not working their fields to their fullest potential run the risk of having their lands confiscated by the government. But such draconian rules can hardly be enforced in areas controlled by the mujahidin...
...textbook military style, the generals now ruling Turkey consolidated their hold over the country last week with the formation of a strongly right-of-center cabinet, a set of harsh new martial law decrees, and draconian economic measures...