Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alarmed by reports of widespread drug and alcohol use at its Laughlin, Nev., generating station, the Southern California Edison Co. organized its own raid. Corporate managers and security officers cut the personal padlocks off 400 employee lockers to rummage through the contents. They searched cars in the parking lot and even frisked a few workers. Seven employees were fired for possessing drugs or alcohol at work in violation of company rules...
...council rolls on, as two more members ask questions. Delegate Robert Weissman '88 asks if the council can look into getting mail delivery for student groups with offices in Memorial Hall. Fellow Representative Ensley asks if the alcohol policy is being made more lenient...
...modestly successful and personally satisfying. But during the run, his wife of some 20 years left him; his two sons are far away and growing increasingly remote; and he is back in Hollywood pursuing some familiar bad habits: "For the past few weeks, he had been getting by on alcohol and a ten- gram stash of cocaine and he had begun to feel as though he might die quite soon...
Nothing seemed immune to criticism during Gorbachev's speech. He declared, "The party will continue to get rid of all those who discredit the name of Communist." Gorbachev boasted that his self-proclaimed war against alcoholism is getting results. "Drunkenness has been elbowed out of factories, and there is less of it in public places," he said. Later, at an unusual news conference, Politburo Member Geidar Aliyev said that half of the state's retail trade revenue, worth about $446 billion a year, had come from alcohol. He claimed that reduced liquor sales had slashed that income by $66 billion...
...associated with some of the research include drowsiness, lethargy, and dizziness, says Orzack. Every subject must be deemed fit by a psychiatrist to go home, and "we always send them home in a cab," she says. "[Using depressants] is like being really drunk, but without the sickness or the alcohol. It's like you're in a bubble," says one participant...