Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment living room. Then the burly, 26-year-old karate enthusiast bought an M-16 rifle and vowed "to fire a few rounds into the ceiling." Fortunately his father got wind of the scheme and put Tom (not his real name) in a psychiatric hospital. There, doctors learned that alcohol triggered his violent episodes. Tom is schizophrenic, and a single beer is enough to send him over the edge...
...Americans appear to be turning into gullible fools when we give religious allegiance to so-called spiritual leaders who are promiscuous and abuse alcohol. It does not take a theological student to realize that these $ flagrantly wealthy, sex-ridden, fast-living "holy men" are not the real thing...
...week's end it was clear that the star had fallen. The surprise was particularly rude in Los Angeles, where Minkow had won some influential admirers -- including Mayor Tom Bradley -- for his community involvement. The entrepreneur coached a local softball team, campaigned against alcohol abuse and spoke out against the use of drugs. Indeed, the charge of drug-money laundering was especially strange, since he had asked his employees to take drug tests and adopted the motto "My act is clean, how's yours...
Kansas, the first state to go dry (in 1881), the state that made Carry Nation's saloon-shattering hatchet famous, last week became the 48th to go wet. Utah and West Virginia still limit the sale of alcohol to private clubs. But in 36 out of 105 Kansas counties, it is now party time. Exulted Stewart Williams, manager of a Wichita bar: "Kansas has finally come into the 20th century...
...porn? What harm does it do? According to the moral right wing, lots. "Erotic material is addictive, like drugs or alcohol," says Paul McGeady, general counsel for the watchdog lobby Morality in Media. "A husband says he wants to see what all this is about and buys a porn videocassette. But he is not satisfied with one that shows ordinary intercourse. Then he fantasizes that he is doing what he sees on the tape. Finally, he turns to his wife and wants to act out kinky sex. She says, 'Get lost!,' and the marriage breaks up." Nor is porn...