Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost is huge. A 1985 study estimates that corporations bought 12 percent of the alcohol sold at retail in that year. The cost to the government of deducting all those martinis was approximately $5 billion. Compare that to the $5.6 billion that former President Ronald W. Reagan proposed for child nutrition and food programs in 1986, and you get a sense of the magnitude of the waste and unfairness in the T and E deduction...
Health class, Harvey Milk School: a male student in drag is talking about his last experience with alcohol. "A drunken butch queen was getting on my case, criticizing me and acting flamboyant, so I pulled a knife on her." A gay youth interjects, "If you consider yourself a woman, you should act like a woman 24 hours a day." So the boy in drag appeals to the only avowed straight girl in the school: "In this situation, are you going to use your knife or not?" She says, "You best believe I'll be using my knife...
Professors caught in this vicious trap cannot simply quit. Feelings of inadequacy undermine plans to switch careers; faculty in this position are especially prone to alcohol and drug abuse, verbal abuse, sexual promiscuity, even suicide...
...drug that might have been designed for use on the job. It is easy to conceal, since it burns with virtually no odor, and the gratification is swift: an intense, almost sexual euphoria that lasts only about five minutes and is not accompanied by such telltale side effects as alcohol's slurred speech and heroin's drowsiness...
...revenue increase of an estimated $500-600 million dollars will probably come from "sin" taxes on alcohol and possibly cigarettes, as well as an increased gasoline tax and a cut in capital gains deduction. Administration officials say the hike would fund programs like employment training, aid to cities and towns and universal health insurance...