Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sick idea came to inventor Tom Berquist three years ago during a discussion of why kids enjoy revolting things. Says he: "I think they get more control over their environment. The more the parents scream, the more the kids want the candy." Parents are not too keen on the promotional campaign either. Appearing at radio stations around the country to hand out free samples to fans is the Boogerman: an actor costumed as a 6-ft.-tall, green, slimy . . . Oh, yech...
...National Organization for Women and the National Abortion Rights Action League each signed up 50,000 new members. NARAL added $1 million to its coffers in July alone. NOW President Molly Yard vows to make every politician confront the question "Are you for the right of a woman to control her reproductive life?" Says political analyst William Schneider: "In abortion the women's movement has an issue that could enable them to break into the mainstream...
Still, much valuable knowledge is being lost, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, because there is no uniform method for collecting information on unnatural deaths. Increasing numbers of M.E.s believe their expertise can also serve the living victims of assaults. Dr. Charles Petty, chief medical examiner of Dallas, regularly checks bruised children brought to a county hospital to see if they are being battered...
Hochschild thinks "pro-family" legislation is needed, not to promote school prayers and cut off birth-control funds, as in the cant of the Reagan years, but to equalize women's wages and provide family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls...
...first time, the opposition takes control of the upper house of the Diet. -- Soviet President Gorbachev keeps his balance, but the waves are getting rougher. -- Mideast masters of double-talk flip-flop their rhetoric...