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The editorial concluded: "A survey this week shows that fewer than 6 per cent of Muscovites want a draconian state of emergency.
During the crack epidemic, Congress and the states imposed draconian mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses.
Among the four pages of rules are these: women must smile and wear makeup at all times, any woman caught chewing gum gets an $80 fine, and then there's the draconian Rule 29--"if any girl gets three complaints, she must immediately resign."
For the growing numbers of experts advocating draconian "drill and practice" routines in which a teacher's every gesture and word is preprogrammed, Angela's Ashes offers a scene in which one of McCourt's Irish teachers shocks him into paying attention by having an opinion on things.