Word: births
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition of pro-choice groups said they had collected 95,895 signatures for one of the proposed amendments, which would guarantee a woman's right to an abortion in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy and an unrestricted right to choose methods of birth control...
Ozick, who begins her article by mentioning last year's "mostly spiritless" centennial celebration of Eliot's birth, says that the poet's reputation has sagged so much that high school and college students "barely" read his work, and cites "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as the only Eliot poem that is studied today...
...wrong to assume that East Germans are as disenchanted with their political system as are many of their bloc neighbors. GDR citizens aren't clamoring to trade their government subsidies, guaranteed health care and the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc for higher prices, unemployment, a declining birth rate and the impersonal chaos of capitalism in their western counterpart...
...that mean in practical terms? Some of the needs are obvious. There is no balancing the demands of work and family life -- for men or for women -- without a national consensus on family policy. Part of this is guaranteeing employed parents the right to take time off after the birth or adoption of a child without risking the loss of their job; more than 100 nations ensure such rights for women workers, according to Sheila Kamerman, a social-policy professor at Columbia University. Equally essential is some sort of financial aid or subsidy to help the working poor...
Legislation, while vital, will not in itself revolutionize the workplace. Parental leave after the birth of an infant quickly comes to an end. The best child care in the world is no substitute for a mother or father being there -- at the playground, at the gymnastics competition, at the dinner table. And * being there is getting harder for full-time workers. Since 1973, Americans' average workweek has grown six hours, from under 41 hours to nearly 47, according to a Harris survey. Earlier this year Felice Schwartz, president of Catalyst, a research and advisory group that focuses on women...