Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bacteria do respond to alcohol, Koshland said. He added, "It's bad for them in the same way it's bad for us--only there's no evidence that they get hangovers...
...bill would not affect present laws permitting 18-year-olds to work in establishments that sell alcohol. It also provides that 20-year-olds who do not have a driver's license may get a special picture identification for $5 from the Registry of Motor Vehicles...
...induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When the government failed to deliver the promised consumer goods, disappointed farmers began producing less. The Vietnamese party newspaper Nhan Dan has complained that many peasants leave paddyfields uncultivated or use rice to distill alcohol or feed pigs...
King argued that many teen-agers were abusing alcohol. Since 1972, the number of 16-and 18-year-old drinking drivers involved in fatal accidents had tripled. Youth vandalism in Boston quadrupled in five years, while incidents of disorderly conduct doubled. There was also a marked increase in the amount of drinking in high schools and in the number of teen-agers under 18 found to be supplied with liquor by older friends. Says Bertram Holland, executive secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association: "Alcohol abuse is the No. 1 problem in schools...
...held their fire. Imaginatively, the police shouted back and forth with their own improvised military jargon: "A Company is located over there. B Company has been pulled back. C Company will move in." They pleaded with him to surrender. Perplexed, Coughlin, who had been high on drugs and alcohol the previous day, stood up and shouted, "Kill...