Word: draconian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone knows that Edward Michael Davis, 58, is the city's chief of police. Tilting with the Times-and anyone else who runs up against his puritan ethics-is standard operating procedure for Davis. To him advocates of gun control are "quacks"; legislators who support less than draconian marijuana laws are "irresponsible, no-good sons of bitches...
...Mayor Renato Zangheri, 50, a onetime economics professor who last month was overwhelmingly elected to a second term, Bologna has almost become a model city. The town's historic center has been preserved by renovating housing with public funds and subsidizing rents to persuade people to live there. Draconian traffic controls ban automobiles from large sectors of the inner city; free rush-hour transit service further persuades people to leave automobiles at home. To aid working mothers, Bologna has built 300 nursery schools, which are maintained with municipal funds. "That Zangheri," says Novelli admiringly, "is a golden monster when...
...Prime Minister last week continued to defend her draconian measures by insisting that India had been endangered by a conspiracy. For the first time, she singled out a culprit-the Jana
During the past three decades, while other nations have devised all sorts of fancy names for their economic plans, Britain has relied on the ancient formula of "muddling through." As the nation lurched from one economic crisis to another, something-a sudden devaluation of sterling, a new draconian budget, the generosity of foreign lenders -always averted catastrophe at the last moment. Today, the British seem to have run out of expedients to solve their latest and worst crisis. Britain "is going down the drain," says Arthur Burns, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. At last many Britons are becoming...
Democrats began to take a more relaxed view of the President's program. "Why adopt draconian measures?" said one Senate aide. "There's no magic in a 1 million-bbl.-per-day oil cutback that would deflate the economy and shoot up unemployment. There has still been no coherent, clear explanation why we should put on this hair shirt." Said Democratic Whip Robert Byrd: "Let's take first things first-let's stop the recessionary slide, create jobs, cut taxes." Similar advice came from the citadel of conservative economic policy. Arthur Burns cautioned: "The President...