Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate today is expected to approve a measure that would cut off federal funding to colleges that do not restrict on-campus alcohol promotion and marketing Congressional staff members said yesterday...
...restrictions, attached as a last minute amendment to President Bush's sweeping anti-drug bill, surprised senators and higher education lobbyists who have fought to keep federal education monies separate from the anti-drug package, a Senate aide said. The aide said opponents hope to water down the alcohol measure before a House-Senate conference meets to hammer out a final drug plan for White House approval in coming weeks...
...will never control the use of illicit drugs or the abuse of alcohol among this age group if we do not take the fundamental--though perhaps politically unpopular--step of encouraging colleges and universities to adopt policies on campus alcohol advertising and alcohol industry sponsorship of college activities, "Bingaman said Tuesday...
...sales in such neighborhoods. On Sept. 12 the Los Angeles county board of supervisors called for a voluntary ban on the sales of fortified wine in a 70-block downtown district. Some law-enforcement experts are skeptical about the effectiveness of such restrictions, saying that drunks could buy their alcohol in a better neighborhood. But Phillip Faight, chairman of a San Francisco group called Safe and Sober Streets, hailed Gallo's move. Said Faight: "If only one person goes to detox as a result of this, the whole thing's worth...
Parker's problem is how to throw in the tank tops and still have a Marlowe who is 42, not 72. After all, he lives on mostly butts and alcohol and commutes between Los Angeles and Poodle (read Palm) Springs , where he beds down with his new wife. She is beautiful, rich and dead set on getting an obstinate Marlowe to give up his grubby profession...