Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...There is] a very sober and determined attempt to look at all the problems," she adds. "The attitude is right...
...sober matter of staging Shakespeare, such audaciousness is hard to resist -- though a lot of Chicago theatergoers have been able to. Typically, a third of the people who show up at the Goodman Theatre to see Sellars' ingenious reworking of The Merchant of Venice walk out before the evening is over. It's no mystery why: the evening isn't over for nearly four hours (and this is one of Shakespeare's relatively short plays). Beyond that, the production pretty much upends everything the audience has come to expect from one of Shakespeare's most troubling but reliably entertaining comedies...
...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...
...York City subway train. He strewed clandestine communications gear around his office, unsecured. He couldn't account for Company money or for himself. His falling-down-drunk episodes were legion, including one at a CIA Christmas party when he had to be carted home. Even when sober, he had incompetence written all over him. A pre-employment psychological assessment found him lacking the people skills essential for spy work. Yet the CIA, desperate for warm bodies during the Vietnam War, hired him anyway. His first boss, the station chief in Ankara, Turkey, warned that the new agent was so inept...