Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth objective would have much effect on productivity statistics as they are currently measured, which reflects an old-fashioned bias toward things that can be readily counted. Nowadays, simply counting widgets doesn't tell us what's going on. Brynjolfsson likens that approach to the reasoning of the drunk in an ancient joke: he looks for his lost keys under a streetlight not because that's where he dropped them but because the light is brighter there...
...novel The Big Money, tells the story of Hearst's leave-taking: "He tutored and went to Harvard where he cut quite a swath as business manager of the Lampoon, a brilliant entertainer; he didn't drink much himself, he was softspoken and silent; he got the other boys drunk and paid the bills, bought the fireworks to celebrate Cleveland's election, hired the brassbands, bought the creampies [sic] to throw at the actors from the box at the Old Howard, the cannon crackers to blow out the lamps of herdie cabs with, the champagne for the chorines [chorus girls...
...associated with alcohol. Even when drinking is not to a potentially lethal level, it impairs students' judgment in ways that can have very serious long[-]term consequences for them, since we do not consider it exculpatory when a student states, as an excuse for some misbehavior, `I was drunk at the time...
...months after the incident, Maggiore wasconvicted of drunk driving. He received a 30-dayjail sentence and five years' probation...
...Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original. Jesus heals a truck driver of leprosy, raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus' teachings live for a contemporary audience, activist Christians should be hailing this play, not trying to suppress...