Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cops in Shops" program places plainclothes police officers in liquor stores posing as store clerks, shelf stockers or customers. Undercover officers are also located outside of liquor stores...
...three weeks, after the day's shooting was over, they all played--and played!--the Sands, a Mob-connected casino in which Sinatra held an interest. They called their act the Summit, a convergence of star power. Crooning, one-upping each other, rolling out booze jokes with their onstage liquor cart, they established their bad-boys-in-black-tie schtick. Sinatra to Martin: "Tell me something, do you fall in the street a lot?" Martin: "It's the only time I get any rest, Frank...
Even if the law were fairly applied, it merely has the effect of shifting the border 10 miles south. Instead of correcting the existing exemption system, the state should scrap the Sunday liquor law entirely...
Unlike in Massachusetts, it is legal to sell liquor in New Hampshire on Sundays, and so the border exemption was made to keep liquor stores from losing the business. However, the law allows towns with so much as a sliver of land within 10 miles of New Hampshire to be covered by the exemption. Store owners in Ipswich, Mass. are allowed to sell on Sundays, while owners in its more northerly neighbor Essex are not, because a sliver of Ipswich stretches up within the ten mile zone. In response to the liquor store owners' complaints, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control...
...legislature takes any action at all, it will probably be to clarify the existing statues which will no doubt ease the unfair situation liquor store owners face. But ultimately, the Sunday liquor law is a ridiculously anachronistic and offensive relic. It should be repealed...