Sunday liquor sales become legal in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts lawmakers have dumped a centuries-old policy of prohibiting statewide alcohol sales on Sunday.

The ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages

Main article: Alcoholic beverage

Fermented beverages

Beer
Ale
Barleywine
Bitter ale

was a relic of the state's Puritan past. The new statewide policy, which lawmakers approved in November, permits alcohol sales on Sundays, but allows municipalities the option of sticking with the ban. The lawmakers cited economic reasons for ending the Sunday liquor liquor /li·quor/ (lik´er) (li´kwor) pl. liquors, liquo´res [L.]
1. a liquid, especially an aqueous solution containing a medicinal substance.

2. law, noting that an increase in the state's tax revenue would surely occur.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3. The Boston Globe, some religious leaders were "loath loath also loth
adj.
Unwilling or reluctant; disinclined: I am loath to go on such short notice.

[Middle English loth, displeasing, loath to give up one of the last laws that distinguish Sunday from other days."

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Title Annotation:	AU Bulletin
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Date:	Feb 1, 2004
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