She admitted to the audience that she was drunk - but still managed to put on a stellar performance.
Last week lawmakers passed a bill penalising drivers who come to New Mexico with drunk-driving convictions from other states.
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Buying lots of booze does not make you a drunk-driver, but someone who buys little or none seems less likely to be one.
The majority of locals spend evenings looking beautiful, checking each other out, partaking of the odd ice cream, and not getting drunk - that would be most unseemly.
His group, Choose Responsibility, argues that the 21 law has done little to stop drunk-driving and, because it is largely unenforceable, breeds contempt for law in general.
New Mexico has the seventh-worst drunk-driving rate in the country, with 189 people killed in alcohol-related accidents in 2005, a drop of 11% from the previous year.
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Furthermore, drunk-driving smokers have not changed their ways over time.
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After leaving the Navy, Lawrence moved to Houston, worked as a medical technician, and totted up a slew of drunk-driving violations, including a conviction for murder by automobile, in 1967.
Last year, only four million or so tuned into Good Morning America for her tete-a-tete with Mel Gibson after the actor made headlines for his drunk-driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic rant.
The actress was released earlier this month from the women's jail in Lynwood, where she served less than two weeks of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation from a 2007 drunk-driving charge.
These included a 20-year-old drunk-driver stopped in Glasgow who already had three cases pending for drink-driving and a 28-year-old woman stopped in Ayr who was found to be almost four times the legal limit.
Her personal integrity has made her all the more willing to appoint special prosecutors (when she was a lawyer in Miami, she called in a special prosecutor to investigate drunk-driving charges against her own mother).
Other signs show photographs of drunk-driving victims.
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While not everyone fights over a serious legal matter -- the better part of combatants just do so for sport or because they're drunk -- those who do so are bound by the results of the match and are generally satisfied by them win or lose (although there have been occasional, impromptu "appeals").
The big question haunting the Republican Party has been whether the evangelical foot-soldiers could be bothered to do the grunt work or even turn out to vote (Karl Rove blamed Mr Bush's election squeaker in 2000 on the fact that 4m evangelicals stayed at home when they heard of young George's drunk-driving conviction).
As such, the film is an efficient demonstration of the Greengrass method: the punch-drunk camerawork, the drum-beating soundtrack, and a stout refusal to pause for thought or downtime.
Sharpton is expected Friday to lay flowers at a memorial for a Brooklyn family, which lost several loved ones when an allegedly drunk off-duty police officer ran them down.
Nevada has long welcomed starry-eyed couples - drunk, sober, or freshly divorced - into its wedding chapels.
The woman - who admitted she was drunk that night - claimed she was attacked after she fell asleep in Mr Cowan's lodge.
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Walk into SAP and all you see is promotion for HANA. Even the employees have drunk the Kool-Aid.
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Martine's small business team, which works with Antieri, built a videoconferencing app for a Florida-based home health care provider and an anti-drunk driving app for a Long Island entrepreneur.
Although Nissan has already considered an add-on option that would prevent inebriated individuals from motoring around on a whim, it looks like Toyota is following suit with its own anti-drunk driving approach.
"I'd be interested in what it's like to be kombucha-ale drunk, " he said.
Other factors, it says, have also contributed to the decline in deaths, and fatalities among under-age drunk drivers have fallen by only 13%.
Though Mr. King had a history of drunk driving, wife-beating, and violent armed robbery, several of the officers were found guilty in the second trial.
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Most karaoke clubs here have private rooms, so you and your friends can sing your hearts out without having to deal with a bunch of drunk strangers' off-key wailings.
For that reason, I doubt that anyone who is a true Apple fanatic, who has drunk the rainbow Kool-Aid and who thrills at the very words "Think Different, " will believe a word I have to say.
If Karl Rove is right, a last-minute story in the 2000 election -- that George W. Bush had been arrested for drunk driving as a young man -- kept a few million likely Republican voters, mostly white evangelicals, away from the polls.
Dealing with Ranger's previous convictions for drink-driving, battery and being drunk and disorderly, Mr Forrester said they happened within a six-week period in autumn 2011, and that the battery offences for which he was given 12-month conditional discharge happened when he struggled with police having been racially abused in the street by others.
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