Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a senior bar party in the Radcliffe Quad, two roommates returned to their Mather House suite with a few extra items for the room. The two mananged, after consuming a large amount of alcohol, to make off with a number of pieces of Quad lawn furniture, carrying them home on the shuttle...
Harmless as pranks like this may seem, health educators warn that the relation between these stunts and alcohol may be more dangerous than most students realize...
...Thorp, admits she drank up to half of a fifth of Jim Beam bourbon every day while she was pregnant. But in a trial that began last week in Seattle, she blames the Chicago distiller for her child's injuries because the bottles did not carry labels warning that alcohol could harm unborn children. The distiller claims that doctors had urged Thorp to stop drinking while pregnant...
...James Beam distillery is the first liquor manufacturer to come to trial in a case involving fetal alcohol syndrome. Starting in November, all manufacturers of beer, wine and liquor must put labels on their containers warning that alcohol can cause birth defects and other health problems...
...late March the government agreed on a budget-balancing plan with the International Monetary Fund aimed at paring the country's deficit and, ultimately, rescheduling Jordan's $6 billion foreign debt. But the government's austerity plan included increases of 10% to 50% in the price of gasoline, alcohol, cigarettes and mineral water, and two days after it was unveiled, disgruntled Jordanians took to the streets...