Word: drunken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firms that have never had a suit filed against them have difficulty if they are in a troubled industry. Day care has become a high-risk business because of sexual- abuse cases. Liquor stores have been denied coverage because they are sometimes liable for death and injury caused by drunken customers. Bismarck Food Service, which sells beer at Detroit's Tiger Stadium, saw its insurance bill increase from $50,000 in 1983 to $1 million...
...subsequent meeting of the school's party organization, which the friend led, Gorbachev stood up to denounce his companion's drunken behaviour. Soon after, Neznansky recalled, Gorbachev became the council's new organizer, displacing his drunken friend...
...Judge Charles Norgle. "The man is dying," Defense Lawyer Patrick Tuite asserted, and Norgle announced that because the defendant suffers from a rare liver disease, he was setting the penalty at only twelve years in prison. LeFevour had been charged with taking some $400,000 in bribes to fix drunken-driving cases and parking tickets in Cook County traffic court. Declared Norgle: "Richard LeFevour had to decide whether to remain an honest judge. Again and again and again, he made a personal, informed, voluntary decision to accept unlawful compensation...
...contrary to the impression you will receive during the drunken days of Freshman Week and every moment you spend here thereafter, there is another part of Harvard. It's very different, but also vital to what you learn, how much you pay, how you're regarded by the real world and how you're treated in the unlikely event of a clash with the forces that lurk behind serenely closed doors here...
Most of the 1,000 Belgian police assigned to the game were outside, trying to control drunken groups still attempting to pour into the stadium. Inside, helmeted Red Cross medics dodged bricks, bottles and smoke bombs as they worked among the dying and injured, frantically trying to resuscitate people who had been suffocated beneath piles of bodies. It was 30 minutes before ambulances arrived, and at first the dead were carried out of the stadium on sections of crowd-control barriers, some covered with flags and banners that only minutes earlier had been waved by cheering fans. The dead, their...