alcoholic
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Senior officials last month described the planned 50% tariffs on Canada as a response to the country’s discrimination against U.S. alcoholic beverages, U.S. dairy products and U.S. motor vehicles.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
You get breakfast, lunch and dinner, with one alcoholic beverage at lunch and dinner, two $25 roller-coaster tickets and two tickets to select shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The board oversees the state’s property tax system as well as the alcoholic beverage tax and tax on insurers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Cathy befriends young Heathcliff after her rich, alcoholic father brings him to live and work as a servant on their estate perched atop the windy English moors.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
The Volstead Act, which banned the manufacture, sale, and transfer of alcoholic beverages, was now the law of the land.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Children of alcoholics are most often on high alert trying to anticipate other people’s feelings, so they can try to head off problems or incidents before they become overwhelming.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
The Back on Track project brings together Brighton & Hove City Council with charities the Oasis Project and Nacoa to offer specialist support to people who grew up with alcoholics.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2021
The decision not to entirely fictionalise the island was deliberate: it isn’t renamed, and there is a reference to its former owner, Frederick Charrington, a 19th-century social reformer who created a community for recovering alcoholics.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2020
Some advocates trace L.A.'s failed policies to the city's 1975 "containment" policy on skid row, long the haven of last resort for alcoholics, the unemployable and disabled people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019
In sixteen years of active practice I have not used alcoholics at all.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
