Word: draconianism
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...Bermuda, here we come!!" the kids shout in unison, as they commence painting flats and making costumes, two activities which have not yet been banned under the draconian enactments of Post-Industrial Society...
...Québécois solution to the language issue has been to preserve French by restricting the use of English. A draconian law known as Bill 101, approved by the legislative assembly last August, makes French the only "official" language in Quebec.* Under its terms, all business with the provincial government must be conducted in French. All professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, must display "appropriate" fluency in order to practice in Quebec. Corporations will be monitored by a government board to ensure that French becomes the "language of work." To pacify English-speaking Big Business, the Quebec government has promised...
Under cover of darkness last week, South African police loosed the country's most draconian wave of repression in almost two decades. Cruising the predawn streets of ghettos from Durban and Cape Town to Soweto outside Johannesburg, they detained within hours many of the best-known black leaders in the country, more than 50 in all. In addition, under orders issued by Pretoria's Minister of Justice James Kruger, South Africa's largest black newspaper, The World (circ. 146,000), was banned and its editor, Percy Qoboza, jailed without charges...
...Madeleine Hemmings, director of employee benefits for the National Association of Manufacturers: "That's going to make for a very uncomfortable workplace. We'll have to keep records and document the mistakes people make. We'll have to do that to protect ourselves." This may not be such a draconian change, however, since many companies keep such records as a matter of course. Corporations envision innumerable lawsuits being brought by older people who are fired for cause. Executives might be put in the position of having to go to court to belittle an employee who had served the company competently...
...ninth, a draconian par three of 230 yards with a mammoth green guarded by water, Vik bunkered a three-wood shot after almost aceing the same hole on Thursday in a practice round...