Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winsten and others began a series of "working luncheons" at the center in which journalists, judges, lawyers scientists and others could discuss the issue of drunk driving...
...local public service announcements about the problem. According to Nance L. Guilmartin, national director of public affairs and station relations for Group W Television, which runs WBZ, Winsten and others hit upon the idea of "positive peer pressure," and focused on the designated driver, rather than simply on drunk driving...
...last December, thanks to the new emphasis on drunk driving, the Harvard Alcohol Project--which uses the media to fight drunk driving--was founded. Since the establishment of the Project, Winsten has continued to use WBZ as "a local television laboratory" for his national goals, says Giulmartin...
Although networks have donated time to the project's anti-drunk driving campaign, other financial concerns have been eased by grants from the Max Factor Family Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trust and the Commonwealth Fund totalling $1,000,000 over three years...
...spokesperson for The Commonwealth Fund, which gave $375,000 for research and assistance to a Massachusetts program that will use local TV and radio to combat drinking and driving, says, "We are delighted with success they've been having. There are pretty horrific figures about people killed by drunk driving. To the degree we can contribute, we are going...