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...complete responsibility for their actions, however stupid, the atmosphere on campuses is very beer-friendly. Anyone can get a keg, they say, or find someone of legal age who will. The local bars card them, "but that's a joke." They drink, they say, because they want to. They overdrink because they don't know any better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No School for Sots | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...missiles. Bouts of furious activity and 14-hour days may be followed by periods of idleness. "It's not a natural environment," complains Ray Forbes of General Electric, who visits the space center for launchings but leaves as soon as he can. "Down here you oversmoke, overeat, overdrink, overworry and undersleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communities: Life in the Space Age | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...these fellows are executive types. They overdrink, they oversmoke, and they are overweight." said a committee spokesman. "It's just a question of time before they run into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Measure of Neglect | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...16th Century, Richard Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, sailed from England to Russia. He reported: "The Russian upper classes overeat and overdrink; but the poor is very innumerable, and live most miserably . . . nor the fish cannot be so stinking nor rotten, but they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Businessman, Soviet Model | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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