Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hearings between the licensing commission and the alcohol commission led to a series of reform proposals for club policies. Among the options considered were requirements that the club change its closing time from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m., pay for special police attention on two nearby streets on Friday and Saturday nights, be served a 30-day suspended license, and be forced to close...
After examining the case, the alcohol commission last week recommended that the five-month suspension be removed and that the club remain open under different conditions, because it did not feel that the violations were intentional...
Concern is greatest, of course, in industries where mistakes can cost lives. Since 1975, about 50 train accidents have been attributed to drug- or alcohol- impaired workers. In those mishaps, 37 people were killed, 80 were injured, and more than $34 million worth of property was destroyed. In 1979, for instance, a Conrail employee was high on marijuana at the controls of a locomotive when he missed a stop signal and crashed into the rear of another train at Royersford, Pa. The accident killed two people and caused damages amounting...
...collapsing from cocaine overdoses and using marijuana, PCP, heroin and numerous other drugs while they worked. Frankel estimates that 20% to 25% of the Rockwell workers at the Palmdale, Calif., plant, the final assembly point for the four space shuttles, were high on the job from drugs, alcohol or both. During the construction of the spacecraft, police raided Rockwell's shuttle assembly plant in Downey, Calif., several times after undercover agents bought cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana from employees. Nine workers were fired...
...which biography you read, he wore either yellow or white shoes to his father's funeral. Gordon Peter, 52, is a classical composer who involved himself in Getty Oil long enough to sell the company to Texaco. Grandson Jean Paul III came to a bad end: years of alcohol and drug abuse precipitated a stroke that left him paralyzed and virtually blind...