Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade ago, perhaps swayed by the battle cry "Old enough to fight, old enough to drink!" 29 state legislatures passed laws lowering the drinking age. But with an average of 5,000 teen-agers dying each year in drunken-driving accidents, the trend slowed down. Since 1976, 20 states have hoisted the drinking age back up by one to three years. The payoff has been dramatic: in at least eight states, a higher drinking age was followed by a 28% reduction in nighttime fatal accidents involving 18-to 21-year-olds...
...states will consider proposals to cut off 18-, 19-and 20-year-old imbibers. Congress has warned that states failing to raise the drinking age may find their federal highway aid in jeopardy. Says James Burnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board: "We've got to handle drunken driving at every age, but if we can't do it for our children, there is not much hope...
...critics, the nationwide campaign to raise the legal drinking age is in high gear. It is likely to be bolstered by the results of an authoritative study, to be published next year by Duke University, that surveyed the 48 continental states from 1970 to 1977. It found that drunken-driving-related fatalities among 18-to 20-year-olds increased 7% when the legal drinking age was lowered from...
...break the bad luck streak Howard is inflicting on him, Willy enlists the help of Howard's girl, Benita (Bette Midler). Together, they plot against Howard. Willy because he will lose his job it Howard wins big one more time, and Benita because she's tired of Howard's drunken abuse and of life in they aluminum trailer outside Reno...
...Yale, the destruction of a small sukkah was just "undirected, drunken Saturday night vandalism and not anti-Semitic," said Rabbi Laurie Rutenberg, assistant university chaplain...