Word: avon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BIRTH DEFECTS. The Ohio department of health has found that women in three communities with PVC plants-Painesville, Ashtabula and Avon Lake-bore more children with birth defects and other malformations than women in other communities in the state; laboratory research has shown that vinyl chloride can cause chromosomal damage in humans. Anesthetic gases also appear to be teratogenic, or capable of causing birth defects. Russian, Danish and U.S. studies all show a high miscarriage rate among women anesthesiologists and operating-room nurses...
Restless Group. A new paperback edition of The Recognitions was published last year by Avon ($2.95), but as Gaddis notes, "For some strange reason, my royalties for the book have always been about $100 a year." During those years he has earned his living as a freelance, writing speeches for top corporate executives, scripts for industrial films, public relations for a drug company. He maintains his headquarters in a small Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River in a village north of New York City. Gaddis has two grown children from a previous marriage...
...They set up Boyle/Kirkman Associates in Manhattan in 1972, with Boyle as president and Kirkman as vice president. One of a handful of management consulting firms that advise top companies on ways to eliminate practices that discriminate against women, Boyle/Kirkman has worked with such clients as CBS, Pillsbury and Avon...
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