Word: draconianism
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...honor code has survived unscathed, but dismissal for code violations is no longer mandatory; the academy superintendent may now keep a student in cases where dismissal seems too draconian. The EE 304 cadets thus return to the Point to find some major reforms that they themselves unwittingly...
...Neither draconian laws nor increased police action is likely to thwart computer thieves. Most authorities agree that computer owners must install more elaborate security measures. Says one: "Cracking a computer system's defenses is about as difficult as doing a hard Sunday crossword puzzle." One computer, protected by a five-digit code number, was illegally entered in minutes when the thief ordered the computer to begin trying every one of the 100,000 possible combinations. But tighter security would cost both money and time. Says Robert Courtney of I.B.M. "If you're running thousands of transactions...
...Draconian measures...
...night address to the people, and that their mildness would neither rally the country nor solve the energy dilemma. After asking Americans to wage "the moral equivalent of war" in meeting "the greatest challenge that our country will face during our lifetime," Carter put forward proposals that were hardly draconian. (Humorist Russell Baker observed that the acronym for moral equivalent of war is MEOW.) Indeed, if the financial discomfiture was to be as minimal as the Administration was claiming at week's end, the essential changes for Americans would be ones of habit and life-style?but those could prove...
...this prosperity is the government's doing. The rise in food production is primarily the result of sheer luck: two seasons in a row of magnificent monsoons. At least part of the gains can be attributed to draconian but pragmatic policies that Mrs. Gandhi adopted while democratic liberties were suspended. The state of emergency was indeed partly proclaimed because opponents would not let the Prime Minister forget that her 1971 election slogan-AN END TO POVERTY-had been turned into a mockery by the war with Pakistan, the absorption of 10 million refugees from Bangladesh, two successive drought years...