Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Owing to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and other groups, laws and attitudes on intoxicated drivers have changed rapidly. The good news is that deaths of drunk drivers are down 32% since 1980, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, whose principal cause is heavy consumption of alcohol, declined steadily over the same period. The bad news is that vast ! numbers of Americans are still willing to drive drunk. Ralph Milstead, director of Arizona's department of public safety, estimates that one of every 100 drivers on the road on Saturday and Sunday nights is "absolutely blitzed...
...students in fraternities and sororities on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sketched a portrait of young people heavily dependent on booze to handle stress. More than half said they drink when angry or upset, three-quarters said they drink to get drunk, and 42% admitted they have trouble putting down the bottle once they start. Almost 30% had at least one accident or injury while drunk...
Cola tastings will probably never replace wine tastings as a status party theme, but as the new-formula Coke seeps into the marketplace, there surely will be many informal comparisons. Because cola beverages are meant to be drunk well chilled, it seemed a good idea to follow that practice...
...hard-ball defense team says it will remedy what Puccio regards as a bungled job the first time out. Puccio intends to portray Sunny as a bored, boring and spoiled brat, as well as a depressed drunk and drug abuser who may have intended to take her own life. As ever, Von Bulow can be seen, the / testimony playing itself out in front of him, leaning back in his wooden chair, with two perfectly manicured fingers placed horizontally across his lips...
Included in the College's definition of "Festive entertainment" was dameing (for which suspension of the mild degredation were the punishments) foregone the dining hall pudding (served with every meal) to eat out in Cambridge taverns or victualling houses, and getting drunk on the alcohol one didn't have in his room...