Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...driving on a curvy road in Salisbury, Maryland. The skidding car hit a mailbox and a telephone pole before wrapping itself around a tree. Brown's girlfriend was killed instantly. His 14-year-old daughter died a few minutes later. Brown, 41, who was seriously injured, was allegedly driving drunk. He shouldn't have been on the road in any condition -- his license had been suspended in 1992 after a long string of traffic violations...
...City, Jesus Soto and his son were installing an antenna on a pickup truck parked along a boulevard when a Chevy Caprice Classic slammed into them. Soto, 51, died instantly. His son, 15, was critically injured. The driver, Angel Burgos, 33, had no valid license and was allegedly driving drunk. His license had been suspended 11 times...
...speed limits to 55 m.p.h. on many highways. But within that success story is a notable exception: unlicensed drivers. Hard to identify and hard to control, they have become a notorious, hard-core class of scofflaws who often stay on the streets until they cause someone harm. While many drunk drivers are now punished with fines and jail time, the most common punishment for driving with a suspended license is to suspend the license again -- often with little effect...
...lazy," she says. "I got excited aboutgoing to parties, boyfriends--it was compensationfor high school." She got "remarkably drunk, likesomething out of television." She even went to afinal club, once. Jain says, "We liked to refer toourselves as those chubby, naive girls thatgiggled...
...number of college-age women who drink to get drunk has jumped more than 300 percent since 1979, according to a new study of drinking on America's campuses. But women aren't the only ones imbibing to excess: one out of every two college students has binged, drinking five or more alcoholic beverages in one sitting. Many of those drunks aren't peaceful: alcohol is involved in 90 percent of all campus rapes, 95 percent of violent crimes and 41 percent of academic problems. TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackman notes that alcohol consumption -- especially hard liquor -- is down nationally...