Word: condomize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signed blank checks collected the last time Ray made the rounds. The customers trust the Arnolds, with good reason. The Arnolds are their contact, their cablehead to civilization. So intimate is this bush network, Carol can calculate the state of marital relations in the mountains by the quantity of condom orders, though she chooses to push this intelligence out of mind...
...makers of an age-old form of birth control, the condom, are again doing a thriving business. After a decade of mediocre sales in the 1970s, the condom is rapidly regaining popularity. Some 500 million will be sold in the U.S. this year, a 15% increase over 1983. According to manufacturers, many people see them as a way to help prevent some kinds of venereal disease. Says Milton Bryson, marketing director for Youngs Drug Products, which makes the Trojans brand: "People have become much more health conscious." Other buyers choose the condom, which is more than 90% effective in preventing...
...believe. Although the script calls for a strong woman who fights against all odds to keep her farm and family, Lange hangs back from any real confrontation. She goes through the motions but her heart just isn't in it. When she questions her son about a condom she has found in his room, for example, her voice has the soft cadences of a schoolgirl rather than the stern tone of an angry mother...
Before their discussions of such methods as the condom with foam, the diaphragm, the Pill, and the IUD, the counselors were careful to stress that their group makes no assumptions about the sexual behavior of Harvard students "We're not assuming that everyone here is heterosexual, or that all of you are having sex or that sex includes intercourse," says Orza...
...product is a soft polyurethane sponge 5.5 cm wide and 2 cm thick, permeated with a common spermicide, nonoxynol 9, that has been on the market for 20 years. The product combines the barrier aspects of the diaphragm with the principal advantages of the less effective male condom. In tests, the sponge has proved to be as effective as the diaphragm: studies for one year of thousands of women, some of whom may not have used contraception diligently or properly, have shown that both methods prevent pregnancy in 90% of those tested. Like the condom, the sponge is handy...