Oddly, this has triggered a new movement to lower the drinking age.

奇怪的是，这却引发了一场降低法定饮酒年龄的新运动。

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And Congress could withhold federal money, as it did in 1984 from states that resisted raising the drinking age to 21.

并且，国会可以扣留该州的联邦资金，就像1984年对待反对把法定饮酒年龄提高到21岁的那些州一样。

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The WHO has a plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It includes raising taxes on alcohol, reducing the number of places to buy alcohol and raising the drinking age.

世卫组织出台了一项降低有害饮酒的计划，包括提高酒精税，减少酒类销售场所数量，提高允许饮酒的年龄。

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Some college presidents and others have suggested that a lower drinking age could have the effect of reducing alcohol abuse.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

They said this was likely a result of the legal drinking age being raised to twenty-one and other policy changes aimed at reducing underage drinking.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

In parts of Europe, the legal drinking age for beer, and sometimes hard liquor,is sixteen.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

In Missouri signatures are being collected to put the question of lowering the drinking age on the ballot.

ECONOMIST: Is it time to lower America's drinking age?

John McCardell, the former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, is leading a national effort to lower the drinking age to 18.

ECONOMIST: Is it time to lower America's drinking age?

He won the event the day after turning 19, the legal drinking age in Ontario.

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