Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EVERY TWO Americans will have a run-in with a drunk driver in his or her lifetime...
Although social and legal avenues to destroy this atrocious fact are slowly being cleared, much more needs to be done to stop drunk people from ever getting behind the wheel. Because the burden of awakening the media, state legislatures and the public falls upon tiny interest groups, little has as yet been accomplished...
Before Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)--a nationwide organization of relatives of drunk driving accident victims--began protesting the legal loopholes that permit drunk driving, the maximum sentence for vehicular homicide was an unconscionable two and a half years...
...judges actually allowed thousands of dangerously drunk drivers arrested for the first time to plea bargain their way out of any punishment...
Happily for Massachusetts, Gov. Edward J. King recently signed several new laws that will boost the punishment facing drunk drivers. But that means the system has gone into a trot instead of the full gallop needed to catch up with the drunk driving problem...