Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...address. All five neighboring states now have an 18-year-old drinking age, and teenagers would be able to get liquor elsewhere, simply by driving over the border. Drinking would move into back alleys and front seats. In addition, the proposed law would exceed its stated intent of removing alcohol from the school yards by discriminating against the thousands of students attending Massachusetts colleges...
Most legislators feel a responsibility to keep alcohol out of schools and out of the hands of teenage drivers. But a drinking age of 21 seems simply too restrictive a measure. It would be far more reasonable and less hypocritical to raise the drinking age only one year...
Abusers of alcohol and tobacco are also more highly susceptible, she added...
...first proposal calls fro raising the legal drinking age to 19 for a one-year trial period, with a study at the end of the year to determine whether alcohol use has diminished in state high schools...
...Jimmy or his mother or wife or his sad younger brother or Cousin Hugh, whose recent ragbag memoirs spill prematurely a lot of what seem to be real family beans. The beans, after all, are everyone's family beans, only easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters are not a bit worse than the Kennedys; the Kennedys just have more cashmere sweaters"). No, the deep shifts sensed and regretted by natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded...