Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years. He was a nice guy, gentle. He'd drink Coke, Perrier, maybe a beer." Josie emphatically denies Paul was an alcoholic and says he appeared perfectly normal that night. "If he'd been a drunk, we would have known about it," she declares...
Paul came into Champmesle late, around 10, but didn't drink anything there. He didn't have time. He had just got a call on his cell phone and announced, "Gotta go to work. See you later." He jumped into his black Austin Mini and headed to the Ritz. Surveillance-camera videotape released last week shows Paul's car pulling up in front of the Ritz. Though there was enough space there to park a couple of moving vans, Paul curiously executed several unnecessary back-and-forth maneuvers. It was then about 10:08. Exactly what he did during...
...most important law regarding alcohol is the age limit. Most kids say the age limit, more than anything else, contributes to irresponsible and immoderate underage drinking. They argue that by prohibiting drinking, the law makes alcohol a taboo, giving kids a reason to drink. If this is true, lifting or lowering the age limit would drastically reduce binge drinking among kids...
...course, not true. To say that kids drink because alcohol is a taboo is ludicrous. Kids drink for the same reason adults do: they want a buzz or intoxication. If we changed the age limit, we would not get a libertarian paradise. We would only get countless teenage alcoholics, even more than we have...
First, kids would drink less. They could get their hands on alcohol only with great difficulty. Second, when kids do drink, they would typically do it in privacy. They would have much to fear from appearing in public while drinking or drunk...