Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...withholding a portion of their federal highway funds. The Senate is expected this week to debate a proposal, sponsored by Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, containing the same punitive measures plus some bonus incentives for states that take additional steps against drunken driving. "This slaughter hurts us as a people," the President said. "It tears up the fabric of society by bringing grief to families, guilt to friends and loss to the community...
...problem, he continues, involved a series of events which included a drunken night when he pulled a fire alarm and then set a fire with a home-made blow torch...
Last year one of Fran's trucks was bashed three times in two weeks by drunken drivers. "There is nothing you can do," she says. "Nobody has any insurance. But I love the place. Nowhere in the Lower 48 do you have this much opportunity...
...judge's monthly bribe. The lawyers who came up with the $2,000-a-month retainer between 1981 and 1983, said U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, were members of a "bribery club." In return for the alleged payoffs, the judge made them court-appointed counsel for unrepresented defendants, often drunken drivers-and then granted acquittals...
Late one night in 1978, a few minutes after two Massachusetts policemen stopped and then waved on a drunken driver, he smashed into a car, killing 20-month-old Misty Jane Irwin and her young father; the drunk died too. Civil justice in the case was meted out last year, when a jury ordered the town of Ware (pop. 8,953) to pay Widow Debbie Irwin, now 25, $873,697 for the negligence of its policemen...