Word: drunks
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...bill, also known as Section 158, denied federal highway funds to any state which did not raise its drinking age to 21. Within three years, all fifty states were in compliance. Section 158 was written and passed at the behest of groups like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who saw raising the drinking age as an integral part of their campaign to crack down on drunk driving...
Privileges restricted by age should have either a philosophical or practical basis. By linking the drinking age to the issue of drunk driving, MADD and its allies argued their case on practical grounds. Certainly, a drinking age of 21 has no intrinsic philosophical justification. The age of majority is 18. It is at that age that citizens get the right to vote, to make valid contracts and such. For men, it is the age at which they can be conscripted and die for their country. The inconsistency of soldiers being denied the privilege to drink is sufficiently jarring--so jarring...
...Saturday afternoon, Yeltsin suggested that in a week of compromise talks with Khasbulatov, Zorkin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he could produce an agreement that might end the power struggle. The President's face looked puffy, and he paused often, setting off mutters among his foes that he was drunk. Maria Sorokina, a Deputy from Lipetsk, her voice almost breaking, went to the podium to say she had been a Yeltsin loyalist and had worked for his election in 1991. No longer, she said. With heavy sighs, referring to the President's speech, she asked, "How long will...
...make the group stand out. "So hold on to your rifles, boys, don't give up your dream/ Of a Republic for the workin' class, economic liberty," Kirwan sings on the cut James Connolly. There's morbid humor too, as on the semiautobiographical song Maria's Wedding, about a drunk, frustrated suitor who crashes an ex- girlfriend's nuptials, promising the bride he'll quit his band and "even...
...messages range from one or two lines of dialogue about the dangers of smoking to a complete episode abut drunk driving...