Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately such lighthearted charm is missing from the rest of Shepherd's part as the film melodramatically portrays Gil's breakdown after the bank forecloses on his loans. His seemingly over night metamorphosis from a conscientious father to a drunk who beats up his son is a sudden and unbelievable...
Underlying the problems of California's vintners is the general stagnation in U.S. wine sales. Says Ann Clurman, a social-trends researcher for Yankelovich, Skelly & somewhat." White: The fetish "Wine for has lost fitness, its along status with increased minimum drinking ages and stiffer drunk-driving laws, has stalled U.S. adult per capita wine consumption at about 2.2 gal. annually...
...news conference. "So there is a great possibility something could be wrong." But the doctors denied that Ali was suffering from dementia pugilistica, a medical term for the often caricatured condition of the simple-minded bruiser who has taken one punch too many. "He is not punch-drunk," said Dr. Stanley Fahn, the neurologist in charge of his case. Nor, doctors insisted, is Ali suffering from Parkinson's disease, a disorder that occurs when the brain ceases to produce sufficient amounts of dopamine, a substance that helps in the transmission of nerve impulses involved with motor control. Having some...
Such brain injuries are not uncommon among boxers. An American doctor, Harrison Martland, observed as early as 1928 that boxers who took considerable punishment could become punch-drunk. Other physicians have documented the damage to fighters' brains. British Neurologist MacDonald Critchley reported in 1957 that a boxer's chances of suffering brain damage increased in direct proportion to the number of bouts fought. Another British researcher, Dr. J.A.N. Corsellis, reported in 1973 that he had examined the brains of 15 former fighters who had died of natural causes. Corsellis observed a striking pattern of cerebral changes rarely found...
Inebriation has filtered throughout the city. Detroit is drunk...