Word: draconianism
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...draconian move, the Administration is backing a bill to put a lid on hospital revenues, limiting them to a 9% increase each year. Totally opposed to such controls, the hospitals have responded with a bill of their own, which has a better chance of being passed by Congress. They want to try to reduce the rate of increase by 2% in 1978 and in 1979; only if they failed would they be subject to federal controls. So far, hospitals have succeeded in slowing the rise in costs by more than 2%, but HEW is skeptical about their continuing...
Biagetti said this will improve the image of the department by "dissipating the myth of a draconian grading policy" and ending the "aura of coldness" which many students think is a characteristic of the department...
...enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired. The more draconian become the measures whereby kidnapers and skyjackers are kept down, the more the democratic world itself is moving toward an acceptance of the principles, or lack of them, that sustain crime...
Taken together, these scarcely add up to a comprehensive program, let alone a draconian one. But most could be useful first steps. Economic advisers figure they would also give Carter moral authority to make a renewed plea to labor and business for wage-price restraint...
...report took the original suggestion of five areas of study, tentatively advanced by a subcommittee last spring, and stretched it to ten. In the opinion of many student and faculty members, these requirements are excessive. One might accept five areas for the sake of pragmatism, but ten are too Draconian to tolerate...