Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrest on charges of drunk driving would be embarrassing for any solid citizen, but for Roman Catholic Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, the experience was downright sobering. The churchman was picked up in February when his Chevrolet brushed against the side of a store. After a blood-alcohol test administered by police showed a reading of .19%, nearly double the .10% level that Minnesota law defines as intoxication, the archbishop was invited to spend the night in the county jail. Recalled Sheriff Dave Ninnemann: "He was a model prisoner...
...about Caroline Watson, the more troubled Anne becomes. The artist had been, by any standards, a miserable mother. She had borne an illegitimate son in Paris and then, under parental pressure, abandoned him to the care of relatives back home in Philadelphia. This unhappy child had grown into a drunk and failure who died at age 28. His widow became the artist's closest friend and companion; she survives as the head priestess of Caroline's cult. Jane Watson ultimately confesses to Anne that she married the son "I didn't love so I could have his mother...
...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; of kidney failure; in Washington, D.C. A physician, he applied quantitative research and analysis techniques to highway accidents and deaths, especially those related to alcohol. As national traffic-safety head, he concentrated on federal standards for safe auto design and tougher local ( and state drunk-driving laws. After 1969, as president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, he pushed for mandatory air bags in new cars, calling the auto industry's resistance to them a scandal comparable to Watergate...
...residents see no need to add to their woes by allowing vagrants to establish themselves in train and bus terminals and residential areas that are otherwise generally safe. In his 1975 book, Thinking About Crime, Harvard Professor James Q. Wilson says that the acceptance of vagrants, panhandlers and sleeping drunks on the sidewalk is the traditional sign that the cycle of urban decay is under way: informal controls break down, muggers and burglars move in, and stable families begin to move out. "Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust...
...source of this blubbery oaf's X-rated capital is the London advertising business. But Self, first encountered drunk and disorderly in a New York City cab, is branching out into American moviemaking. This is a realm of invisible money, transparent friendship and deals as insubstantial as holograms. In Manhattan and Los Angeles, he is called Slick by people with names like Nub Forkner, Herrick Shnexnayder and Fielding Goodney, who communicates in the language of Upper Vulgaria: "Date-raped, Slick. Out on a date, you know? Remember. In fact it's an interesting distinction. With a regular rape, lust plays...