Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presents the social grounding of the pro-choice movement. And understandably so. Despite the talk about cases in which women are physically endangered by their pregnancy or are impregnated due to rape (these cases account for less than 1 percent of all abortions), it is single, young, poor or career women who are most likely to see abortion as the best solution, however traumatic, to a big dilemma--pregnancy...
...namely, comprehensive public-sector and corporate childcare programs, extended maternity leaves, just palimony rulings and enforcement, affordable housing, minimum wages in accordance with the costs of living and greater aid to struggling parents with dependent children. In short, a society in which economic survival, work, school, career, life expectations and motherhood are not mutually exclusive, as they often are now for single, young and poor women...
...Huckleberry Finn, Babes in Arms and two movies in his enormously successful Andy Hardy series). Rooney, incidentally, was No. 1 at the box office that year. Greta Garbo laughed, as the ads triumphantly proclaimed, in Ninotchka; Ingrid Bergman made her American debut in Intermezzo; Marlene Dietrich saved her flagging career with Destry Rides Again; the Marx Brothers clowned in At the Circus; and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. Judy Garland, who was all of 16, was in only two pictures -- The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms -- but her giant...
...wanders about through a soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity of envisioned phenomena and it surprised me to have it called luxuriant...
MacDonald worries about how his decisions will affect the current sophomore core--several of whom have high hopes for an NHL career...