Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev can maintain his course, the next few years hold further promise. He has pledged to increase child allowances for low-income families and extend preschool child care. Plans to expand part-time employment options are particularly appealing to working women, most of whom want to hold on to their jobs but not full time. The Soviet Women's Committee, which submits to the government proposals on legislation affecting females, is seeking to increase the number of day-care centers (currently there are 3 million children without places) and build greater flexibility into work schedules. Some factories have begun...
...relative inattention to women's health seems a contradiction, given the state's emphasis on childbearing. Yet gynecologic care is lacking. New mothers tell of unsanitary conditions and inadequate care. "I was at one of the best maternity hospitals in Moscow, but it was dirty," complains a 29-year-old woman. "The mothers all had caked breasts, and the toilet was filthy." Adds an employee of a maternity house in the capital: "Women in labor are treated like cattle. There's one midwife for every 15 women." Alexander Baranov, a Deputy Minister of Health, admitted in a recent newspaper interview...
Once the East bloc's chief reformer, Kadar had run Hungary since Moscow installed him in power in 1956. Now he has the largely ceremonial post of party president. Few Hungarians seemed to care; all eyes were on his successor. "This is a talented and politically skilled crowd," said a senior Western diplomat in Budapest of the country's new power elite. "What they might do now is wide open...
...early 1930s, however, cigar-factory owners began barring the lectores from the premises for reading subversive materials. Long strikes by active new unions did little to bring the lectores back or to stop the inevitable progression toward mechanization. "One machine took care of a whole row of twelve people," says Delia De Caprio, owner of Joe Faedo's bakery. Her parents were both cigar workers. The Depression finished off what the unions and machines started...
...come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...