Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both policies miss the element of long-term planning; neither will stand the test of time. Court cases are still debating the gay ban, despite Clinton's change. And drunken first-years are no less prevalent in the Yard than they ever were...
...legal fees to win back custody of her daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky Congressman on a bender...
...father Clyde worked in the oil fields; his mother Lucille owned a beauty-shop. They married and divorced twice, with Lucille gaining custody of the boy after she accused Clyde of haranguing her in drunken rages. Their son has a more settled sense of self: "I'm a family man. I have two children, a wife. I'm in the cattle business. I'm an actor. I've made my living with my imagination all my adult life. And I hope to continue to grow every...
Freedom -- of sorts. Freedom from beatings by a drunken father. Freedom from fighting with seven siblings for a crust of bread. Freedom to hope. Cristiano, now 16, fled the abuse and violence of his home at 6. Surely the streets of glamorous, wealthy Rio de Janeiro offered a better life than the wretched slum west of the city where he was born...
...million, or 22%, cut in his budget on June 30 if Governor Pete Wilson carries out a plan to divert local property-tax revenue to state coffers. Warned Phillips: "We have no choice but to commit remaining resources to the prosecution of the most serious crimes." Among misdemeanors, only drunken driving, domestic violence and resisting arrest will be prosecuted. Phillips may be trying to scare the Governor, but meanwhile small- time offenders -- from shoplifters to prostitutes -- will go scot-free in Stockton...