Word: drunkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When we arrive, two men are standing by the door, both visibly drunk, and one with a gash over one eye and blood running down his face and shirt...
Along with recommending a head alcohol coordinator, the report's eight other recommendations included reducing "perceived barriers" to providing medical help to drunk students, improving student social life and annually surveying students on alcohol attitudes...
...Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed to the recording. Harrison disputed this: "One drunk person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute a business deal...
...spring, and Washington is crowded with hordes of high schoolers posing on the steps of the Capitol with their Representatives. It's just a picture bite. Few nonpayers get to see their Congressman. Just last month, when a stricter drunken-driving standard was up for a vote, Mothers Against Drunk Driving couldn't get in to see key members, who they were told were "in conference or on the floor." But the door was open for the lobbyists for liquor and restaurants, who have donated $25 million. The standard died in committee...
...takes an agile mind to defend drunk driving and kids' smoking. Take the modest proposal to set the drunk-driving threshold at .08 blood-alcohol content nationwide--stricter than the .10 standard in 34 states. The liquor lobby long played on the fear that .08 would mean social drinkers who've had a few after work would all fail the Breathalizer. But research shows you can drink yourself silly before reaching .08: a 170-lb. man can guzzle four martinis inside an hour on an empty stomach before he gets there. He may not be sloppy drunk, but who wants...