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...excluded, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the employer. The premise of the affirmative action concept of the executive order is that unless positive action is undertaken to overcome the effects of systematic institutional forms of exclusion and discrimination, a benign neutrality in employment practices will tend to perpetuate the status quo ante idenfinitely...
Researchers at the School of Public Health reported yesterday that women who take birth-control pills for long periods get fewer benign tumors of the breast than women who do not take the pill...
...report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that women who had taken the pill for at least two years had a 60 per cent lower chance of developing benign breast tumors than those who did not. Women who have benign tumors are more likely to develop breast cancer than other women...
...major political drama is unfolding in Western Europe: the Communists' attempt to gain power by asserting that their brand of Marxism is just a benign, reformist force, quite unrelated to Moscow. They have said this before, of course, but they are now pushing the line to the point of no longer even sounding like Communists. Will non-Communist parties believe the line? If not, what will they do about it? All this may well be the most serious challenge to democratic values and security in Europe since the cold...
Senator Frank Church, 51. Had cancerous left testicle removed 28 years ago with no recurrence of disease. Rectal polyp, presumably benign, removed in 1969. Suffers high-frequency hearing loss. Advised to control weight, but otherwise in good health...