Word: drunks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wall Street got drunk.' GEORGE W. BUSH, describing the nation's troubled economy at a GOP fund raiser after requesting that all cameras be turned...
...Subsequent postings took him to Beirut, as well as ambassadorships in Zaire, Somalia and Pakistan. His dead-serious demeanor, reflected in his craggy, Lincolnesque features, makes Oakley a poor companion for swapping jokes or, as one old friend put it, ''having him over to the house to get drunk in front of the fire.'' But such intensity has endeared him to colleagues, even those who received wake-up calls alerting them to overnight cables and demanding to know what should be done. ''It's always a little off-putting to get slammed up against the wall...
...unit. These were said to be some of the baddest s.o.b.s of the war, and anyone who saw them then knew they did not suffer fools. They operated out where no one else went, and if you ever saw them in a civilized setting, they were likely to be drunk and abusive, and no wonder. Today Dave is a boon companion, but you are aware that his fuse doesn't have much length. We hired a car and went up to Hue together, intending to go to the Ashau Valley, home of Apbia Mountain, or Hamburger Hill, the site...
...hospital. ''You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee,'' he exclaimed. ''The family has to be very dependable and constant.'' While Loma Linda refused to reveal the precise nature of its objections to Jesse's parents, TIME learned last week that Sepulveda has a record of arrests for drunk driving, and had been through a ''substance abuse'' treatment program. Though he downplays these problems, Sepulveda says, ''I do think that Loma Linda had good reasons to turn us down.'' Another ethical issue was brought to light by the Baby Jesse case: the growing role of the media in determining...
...Binge-drinking has increasingly come under the media spotlight. Multiple cases of teenage students turning up to school blind drunk have been reported, as have incidents of young people suffering temporary alcohol-induced comas. Just last month, an 18-year-old student in central France drank himself to death while celebrating his passage of the baccalaureate exam...