Word: prohibitionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggle between undergraduate drinkers andtheir prohibitionist University adversaries is notconfined to Harvard...
...prohibitionist crusader promptly exited the building, slapping students' faces along the way and crying that everyone at Harvard was a "hellion...
...plagues could not have come at a worse time for the California wine trade, whose annual sales exceed $3.6 billion. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which regulates the wineries, appears to be following a neo-prohibitionist agenda. The bureau requires wine labels to carry warnings about drunken driving and the danger of alcohol to pregnant women. At the same time, the bureau refuses to allow vintners to promote or advertise research indicating that drinking wine in moderation has some health benefits...
...corporate life-style police are at least motivated by real financial concerns. All too often, other life-style busybodies are motivated by sheer bloody-mindedness. A persistent neo-Prohibitionist movement has added to the woes of the nation's wine industry by pressuring the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into demanding ever more prominent and explicit health-warning labels on bottles. (One irate California publicist responded by labeling some Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon "Chateau le Warning" and putting the Surgeon General's injunctions right up front. The BATF was not amused...
...these are the best of times for California winemakers, they are also the worst. The vintners feel besieged by a burgeoning neo-prohibitionist movement that seeks not to ban alcohol but to surround its sale with crippling restrictions. Many winemakers thought it unhappily symbolic that the Oakland Athletics, playing in a stadium less than 40 miles from the state's leading wine county, celebrated their American League championship win with foaming bottles of carbonated cider. League president Bobby Brown thought it unseemly that role-model athletes should be seen on national TV swigging champagne...