Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest threat comes from corporations bent on increasing profits no matter what the costs," said Dr. Jean Kilbourne, a film producer and writer who sits on the board of directors of the National Council on Alcoholism. The alcohol industry takes in $65 billion in revenue each year and spends $1 billion in advertising, she said...
More than half the alcohol sold in this country is consumed by less than 10 percent of the drinkers here, Kilbourne said. Such figures indicate that liquor companies rely primarily on problem drinkers to make their profits, Kilbourne said...
...alcoholics were to recover, what would happen?" Kilbourne asked. "It would devastate the alcohol industry. The heavy user is the best user...
...Many alcohol companies maintain that the purpose of their advertising is simply to encourage people who already drink to switch brands. But Kilbourne said that the approaches used by advertisers are clearly designed to appeal to new users...
...implications for the general safety of air travel. After a USAir jet plunged into New York City's East River on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport with a highly inexperienced crew at the controls, both pilot and co-pilot failed to make themselves available in timely fashion for drug and alcohol tests. When a French UTA jet exploded in midair after taking off from the African nation of Chad, investigators found evidence of a terrorist bomb, allegedly linked to Middle East events...