Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem: how to cut down on drunk driving, which was killing about 28,000 Americans every year...
...Calif., when a car swerved out of control and killed her. Police arrested a 46-year-old cannery worker named Clarence Busch and found that he had a long record of arrests for intoxication. Less than a week earlier, he had been bailed out on a hit-and-run drunk-driving charge. A policeman told Lightner that Busch was unlikely to spend any time behind bars for killing her daughter: drunk driving was just one of those things...
...something. "I remember sitting in the bar with all these people and saying out loud, 'I'm going to start an organization.' Just like that. There was this big moment of silence, and then my girlfriend pipes up and says, 'And we can call it Mothers Against Drunk Drivers.' I didn't have a plan, a goal, nothing. All I knew was that I was going to start an organization, and I was determined to make it work...
...went to see California Governor Jerry Brown to persuade him to appoint a task force to deal with drunk driving. Brown declined to receive her. She went to his office every day, talking to anyone who would listen. After newspapers publicized Lightner's crusade, Brown finally told her that he was appointing the task force and that she would be a member. "I just started crying right there in his office," Lightner says...
Sharlene Wells, a student at Brigham Young, believes, "Because we have conservative values, people underestimate us. But this is Utah's time." She is the current Miss America and finds it "refreshing there is a team that wins all of its games without getting drunk the night before." As the mythical national championship is a kind of beauty contest, a parallel here is hard to resist. Both Wells and the Cougars represent something of an alternative to scandal...