Word: sobering
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...issues were hot prospects on the Tokyo exchange. After the Nikkei index's steep dip early last week, bidding on these shares helped the exchange recover 318 points by the close of trading on Friday. But the boomlet of hope in the ashes was not enough to convince more sober heads...
...have launched a growing backlash against their inebriated peers. Not just freshmen, prodded by overanxious parents, but upperclassmen as well are demanding alcohol- and drug-free living and study environments. Even at party-hearty Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the students in an entire dorm have pledged to stay sober during their four years of school. Repentant drinkers, meanwhile, are helping organize Alcoholics Anonymous groups on campus...
...alcohol have focused on the fact that other people's drunkenness isn't just unpleasant. It often leads to physical and sexual assaults and even death, especially when wasted students climb behind the wheel of a car. Enough is enough, say the campus rebels who want to stay sober...
...There is] a very sober and determined attempt to look at all the problems," she adds. "The attitude is right...
...sober Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, whose department oversees such matters, said a newly-intensified White House security review started after aplane crashed on the premiseslast month is looking at all options, including the roping off of Pennsylvania Avenue...