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...Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
...became involved in a street fight outside of a Pizza Ring on Western Avenue in Cambridge after Colono, who was waiting outside the restaurant for his pizza, insulted Pring-Wilson for apparently drunken behavior, police...
...first beer tonight. Unwisely, I reveal my destination for the next day. Klaus immediately offers to drive me. Or better, we’ll take his motorbike, which sits, hulking in the garage. I tremble at the very concept of an Autobahn ride behind this drunken Bavarian...
...COLD DAY in 1934 that James Houck hit bottom. Newly wedded and living in Frederick, Md., he was getting drunk every weekend--and sometimes even during the week--on home brew. He had recently been in a drunken-driving accident in his employer's car, and his drinking had estranged him from his wife Betty. "We were not married a month," Houck says, "before I told her I was sorry I ever saw her." Houck had begun drinking early, at age 5, when he would sneak sips from his mother's bottle of dandelion wine, then make up the difference...
...just the superrich who are spending like drunken sailors. According to Marquis Jet CEO Bill Allard, his clientele extends beyond athletes and entertainers. "We have people in their 20s up into their 80s. We have people who haven't necessarily built up their nest eggs, and then we've got billionaires," he says. "When you look at the growth in luxury brands, first you have to look at the economy, and obviously it has really revived over the last year. But there is a premium in terms of quality of life. People are saying 'I've worked hard...