Word: drunks
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Speaking to about 100 students, educators, and state representatives, the governor plugged his Safe Roads Act, saying, "The people of Massachusetts support tougher measures against drunk drivers...
...would, among other measures, make driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) greater than 10 percent grounds for conviction on drunk driving charges. This automatic "administration per se" rule would dispel drivers' and jurors' uncertainty over what exactly constitutes drunk driving, Dukakis said...
Judge Kramer emphasized the need for consistency in the punishment and teatment for drunk driving. A provision of the Safe Roads Act giving prosecutors seven days to investigate a defendant's previous drunk driving record would ensure appropriate sentencing of multiple offenders, he said...
Ross, who is visiting Harvard from New Mexico, has studied the effectiveness of different methods of deterring drunk driving worldwide. "Punishment must be certain, severe and swift," he said...
...Although drunk driving deserves preventive action, the payoffs of putting our resources in the prevention of general highway fatalities are more sizable, he said...