Word: draconianism
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...volunteer juries have turned out to be sensitive and imaginative. They have handed out some less-than-draconian but effective decrees: ordering a 17-year-old to join an athletic team; rebuking a father for belittling his son and "being part of the problem"; instructing a youth to write a letter of apology to a policeman...
...avoid such extremes, the U.S. may be forced to take strong measures to bring down inflation. Grove and Washington Economic Consultant Robert Nathan reluctantly vote for a "quick and dirty" solution that would include draconian measures. Says Grove: "The ideal program would be very sharp fiscal and monetary policies buttressed at the outset by wage and price controls. The controls would be cosmetic, to convince people that the program is really going to work." Okun scorns this as the "trillion-dollar cure," meaning that it would cost the nation that much in lost production. He believes that such a solution...
Rausch's six-month rule may strike some as draconian, but the bishop is no mossback. He built a reputation as a progressive within the hierarchy during four years as the top staff executive of the U.S. bishops' conference. Since Rausch, 50, arrived in Phoenix two years ago, he has been an activist on such issues as the rights of farm workers and minority hiring, which has drawn him the wrath of the conservative Arizona Republic...
...been severely criticized. At a state dinner hosted by the South Korean President, Carter praised the country's economic progress but added that "this achievement can be matched by similar progress through the realization of basic human aspirations in political and human rights." Under a series of draconian "emergency decrees" enacted in the early 1970s in the name of national security, the Korean government has sweeping powers of arrest, detention, search and seizure. Universities, radio stations and newspapers can be closed down, and criticism of the President and the constitution is prohibited...
...water table that helps cushion Venice's more than 100 canal-cut islands. As a result, the fabled city of palaces and churches, frescoes and piazzas, began to sink at a frightening rate, gauged by scientists to be an average of .5 cm (.2 in.) per year. Unless draconian measures were taken, the Adriatic would claim Venice within 60 years...