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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Dukakis Advocates Breathalyzers | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...Some people think, because different people react differently to alcohol, that some individuals may not to be too impaired to drive with a blood alcohol content of .10 or higher," Dukakis said...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Dukakis Advocates Breathalyzers | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...Moreover, breath tests favor the subjects tested by consistently underestimating an individual's true blood alcohol content," he said...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Dukakis Advocates Breathalyzers | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...April 15 Crimson editorial concerning the current federal gun decontrol bill contained inaccuracies of both tone and content which I feel painted a distorted picture of the legislative history here. You missed a chance to provide some education amid your declamation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun Control | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

...repertoire of compositional tricks, though effective, is not very wide. The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself, and Katz has a near Warholian indifference to meaning: "I'd like to have style take the place of content, or the style be the content . . . I prefer it to be emptied of meaning, emptied of content." This is known as having your abstract cake and eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rockwell of the Intelligentsia | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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