Word: bac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard some stories. The scariest was about a couple of tourists who were sitting in the front row of a BAC plane when the aircraft began to take dips of several hundred meters at a time. As they nervously fastened their belts, they saw through the open cockpit door that the crew was frantically prying open the floorboards with screwdrivers, possibly looking for the safety instructions. When they landed back in Rangoon, a group of Japanese package tourists thought they were in Bangkok...
...would, among other measures, make driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) greater than 10 percent grounds for conviction on drunk driving charges. This automatic "administration per se" rule would dispel drivers' and jurors' uncertainty over what exactly constitutes drunk driving, Dukakis said...
Since the average BAC of first offenders is .17, most of these people are serious alcoholics, Kramer said. Treating alcoholism therefore, is very important, he said...
Nowadays The 700 Club is increasingly left in Kinchlow's hands as Robertson crisscrosses the country in the company's BAC One-Eleven jet. With his enterprises--and his political prospects--building up momentum, Robertson has less time to spend with his wife Dede in a university-owned $420,000 mansion on the CBN campus. When he is home Robertson usually is awake at sunrise, studies the Bible for an hour, jogs two miles and perhaps takes a ride on one of his four horses before going to his studios. It is a country gentleman's life-style, which befits...
...anxiety that continue to bedevil Americans. Indeed, the reactions frequently border on hysteria, adding ostracism and discrimination to the suffering of the world's AIDS victims. Headlines in Europe have proclaimed the disease's spread with dire warnings of a new plague. This has led Professor Carlo de Bac, secretary of the Italian League to Combat Virus Diseases, to complain that journalists are creating "unjustified alarm and panic worthy of the Dark Ages." But there has been at least one positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action...