Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drivers involved in fatal accidents had tripled. Youth vandalism in Boston quadrupled in five years, while incidents of disorderly conduct doubled. There was also a marked increase in the amount of drinking in high schools and in the number of teen-agers under 18 found to be supplied with liquor by older friends. Says Bertram Holland, executive secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators Association: "Alcohol abuse is the No. 1 problem in schools...
Foreign tourists seeking a quick snack in downtown Seoul are unlikely to find satisfaction in the Korean equivalent of American fast-food chains. These are the 400 eateries specializing in a local delicacy: snake. Among the potables on their bills of fare are bottles of a vodka-like liquor in which live serpents have been put to steep. Another quick pick-me-up is whisky fortified with powdered python. Also on the menu is tang, thick, pale yellow serpent soup. To tempt appetites, restaurateurs feature window displays of writhing snakes in glass bowls...
Sure there are shortcomings. Housing is scarce. Even the most vocal Wichita cheerleaders admit to a certain provincialism. Bible Belt conservatives have barred the public sale of liquor by the drink. But the city is on a culture kick. In the past decade, Wichita has opened a flying saucer-shaped civic center that dominates downtown, a 12,200-seat coliseum for conventions and cattle shows, one of the nation's better Indian museums, two art museums, a planetarium, a zoo and three new libraries. That hardly makes the community a rival to, say, Chicago. Yet almost everything...
Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, on so-called nuisance taxes: "I call them sin taxes, you know, on cigarettes, liquor, gambling. The reason they can pass sin taxes is that the sinners aren't organized. How many drinkers are organized...
...likeliest compromises are a 20-year drinking age for all liquor consumption or a 19-year legal age in bars and a phased-in 21-year age for purchasing packaged alcohol, State Rep. Barney Frank '62 says...