Word: drunkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey also studied the side-effects of binge drinking--interruption of sleep or studying, having to "babysit" a drunk friend or roommate, personal arguments and unwanted sexual advances--and found that three out of four students have experienced these "secondhand effects...
...suit alleges no one was checking IDs and alcohol was being served "indiscriminately" to minors including Colt. Colt says she could not resist Keller's assault because she was drunk...
...accident on Aug. 31, 1997, that also killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed and a dangerous stretch of road. Yet many of the key mysteries are far from solved--and some troubling facts have emerged. Among them: the hastily rented black Mercedes S-280 may have had serious mechanical failures; and driver Paul's blood, apart from a high alcohol...
...DRIVER Postmortem tests showed that Paul was legally drunk and under the influence of two prescription drugs on the night of the accident. Less known is the fact that Paul's blood contained an abnormally high level of carbon monoxide (CO): 20.7%, enough to provoke somnolence, severe dizziness or even put some people in a coma. "I don't see how he could walk in that state, much less take the wheel," says the head of the antipoison center at a major Paris hospital...
...ebbing. After he left office, two of his top aides were convicted of fund-raising-related crimes. And Flynn's tenure as an ambassador earned him a reputation for erratic and often unstatesmanlike behavior in Washington and Rome. After the Globe published an eyewitness account of him appearing drunk in the late afternoon, Flynn went on 60 Minutes to rebut the charges. Now he dismisses the controversy. "I don't think [voters] take it seriously," he says...