Word: drunks
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...Thomas P. White (D-Worcester) and State Senator William Keating (D-Sharon) authored the bill. But House Rep. Frank Woodward (D-Walpole) was one of the bill's staunchest supporters. Woodward's 18-year-old daughter died in a car accident when her vehicle was hit by a drunk driver. His speech, in which he said she would have survived had she been wearing a seat belt, brought the house to its feet and won support for the bill from many legislators, Grossman said...
Those competing values are increasingly set against each other as Americans face more and more screening designed to combat drugs, drunk driving, terrorism, on-the-job thievery and, most recently, AIDS. Major league baseball players last month temporarily deflected a push for voluntary drug testing. The metal detectors familiar at airports are now found at many government buildings. In the first six months after the Dade County courthouse in Miami installed a detector last year, an amazing 3,000 weapons were discovered. Peter Bensinger, former administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, estimates that about one-quarter of FORTUNE...
...bearing on their job performance. Urinalysis, for instance, can indicate drug use a week or more after it has taken place. Columbia University Professor Alan Westin says that how people spend their time away from work is a private matter: "Many generations of American workers would get roaring drunk on Saturday night, then show up for work a little hung over on Monday morning, and we led the world in production." Westin believes tests should measure the level of impairment, as Breathalyzers do, not merely look for evidence of drugs or alcohol...
Treatment for the Soviet Union's estimated 9 million alcoholics ranges from spending a night in a sobering-up center or a factory clinic to a term in a work camp for those who habitually appear drunk at work or in public. Western- style medical detoxification and counseling is still rare: only two hospitals and 23 out-patient centers serve Moscow, a city of 8.5 million people. According to widespread rumors, one recent patient was Grigory Romanov, Gorbachev's erstwhile competitor for the party leadership. After resigning from the ruling Politburo last July, Romanov, long thought to be a heavy...
...Islam guards, men in deep blue caps and suits, looking like parodies of club-car porters, or the female guards surrounding Farrakhan as he spoke, wearing white kepis and robes that looked like doormen's coats. Nothing that occurred on stage was more or less troubling than watching a drunk in a subway cursing the "niggers" or the "spics...