Word: draconian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, the initial effect of Proposition 13 will not be as draconian as some bureaucrats had predicted. But that is only because state revenues have been high, a condition that could change quickly. The slightest business recession could make a similar state bailout of local governments impossible next year. On the other hand, by relieving taxpayers, Proposition 13 could well stimulate enough business growth to generate added tax revenues...
...runs from Arizona to Alaska to Guam-makes uniform procedure difficult to impose and spreads the circuit's 13 judges thin. The Fifth, which covers many Southern states, is the busiest of the circuits, handling almost 30% of all federal appeals. Fifth judges have taken even more draconian time-saving measures than the Second. Under its "summary calendar system," oral argument is eliminated in about half the cases...
...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...
...Hanoi's communization program rather than by specifically anti-Chinese discrimination. Already deprived of their shops and goods, the Chinese in Viet Nam are understandably fearful of Hanoi's announced intention to resettle over the next 20 years in uninhabited areas 10 million people from overcrowded cities. An equally draconian resettlement program in Cambodia in 1975 coupled with political reprisals has already cost at least half a million lives. Why has Peking so far refused to accept Hanoi's offer to negotiate the fate of the Chinese in Viet Nam? Some Western observers speculate that Peking may have seized...
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...