Word: excess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside but set apart by the flavor and freshness of the mix within. Shrimp dominates, but pork and mushroom are effective supports. The little rolls rush through various Chinese flavors like an overture, as though the appetizer was designed to appetize by example. The only (minor) flaw was an excess of grease on one of the three trials...
Unfortunately, for many freshmen this sudden liberation opens the door to indulgent excess. Despite the fact that 18 states have raised the legal drinking age since 1985, alcohol remains an often troublesome fact of campus life. Even if students cannot get into bars, most of them know upperclassmen who can buy alcohol. College officials fear that when students drink in their own rooms, out of the public eye, they are more likely to lose control. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that students find hard liquor easier to conceal than beer, but have had little previous experience with...
...outside but set apart by the flavor and freshness of the mix within. Shrimp dominates, but pork and mushroom are effective supports. The little rolls rush through various Chinese flavors like an overture, as though the appetizer was designed to appetize by example. The only (minor) flaw was an excess of grease on one of the three trials...
...just as worried about proliferation of chemical weapons as the United States," says an American official. Last year, in a burst of glasnost, the Soviets admitted to stockpiles of "no more than 50,000 tons of chemical warfare agents." (U.S. officials estimate that the Soviets have stockpiles well in excess of that amount.) More significantly, Moscow acceded last August to U.S. demands for on-site inspections of chemical weapons depots. Two months later, the Soviets were host to a delegation of Western military officials, who toured a plant at Shikhany, supposedly the U.S.S.R.'s largest chemical-weapons facility...
...Still, Yorkin deserves sympathy for getting caught in a zeitgeist warp. Seven years ago, at the dawn of the Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid for every excess, fiscal or physical. And in a town where, as one wag notes, "there are more stars at a Rodeo Drive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than there are at the Academy Awards," a few moviemakers are taking the pledge to put drug and alcohol addiction onscreen...