Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...college campuses, encouraging heavy drinking and "contributing to poor grades, excessive vandalism, many injuries, and not so infrequently, death." Bowen asked Education Secretary William Bennett to encourage university presidents to restrict alcohol promotions on campus. Spuds MacKenzie, the canine star of Anheuser-Busch's advertising campaign for Bud Light beer, is also in the doghouse. This fall the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors filed complaints with several federal agencies charging that the campaign encouraged kids to drink...
Simultaneously, another shadowy fact of life about alcoholics has been dragged into the light: the severe emotional scars they leave on their spouses and especially on their children. "Years ago the focus fell solely on the alcoholic," says Carol, a mother of four and wife of an alcoholic. "Nobody identified the needs of the family." Indeed, alcohol abuse accounts for more family troubles than any other single factor. A Gallup poll this year found that one in four families reported a problem with liquor at home, the highest reported rate since 1950 and twice the 1974 rate. According to Health...
Another potential solution would require the involvement of the University. It should not permit TFs with repeatedly low and unacceptable CUE guide ratings to teach until they present evidence that they have seen the light and amended their ways. Once again, however, the financial aid structure of graduate study makes such a simple yet effective suggestion seem utopian...
...rail lines between Naga and Manila. Soon after, the army escalated its war with the N.P.A., further disrupting the local economy. Then the market where San Buenaventura sold kalamansi burned to the ground. Crossing herself, the fruit vendor offers a prayer for President Corazon Aquino. "Cory is our guiding light," she says, "our savior. She has not sinned against her fellowmen. It's only the people around her who have wronged...
Cohen concedes that in the weeks of hauling and tugging by the two committees' 26 members, much that was political got into the report. "Some House Democrats tried to put everything in the worst possible light." He told them, "You can make a point without pulverizing it." After dozens of drafts and revisions, a compromise was reached that was able to attract the three Republican Senators...