Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came to a critical confrontation. Outside there was a | raucous standoff on the courthouse steps and plaza, where some 200 demonstrators, pro and con, sang, chanted and shouted. Inside, where the noise could not penetrate, the nine Justices were assembled to hear arguments in William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a case that could leave in tatters the pivotal Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973. In both places many of the issues were the same. But inside, though the language was less heated, it had more weight...
...James Beam distillery is the first liquor manufacturer to come to trial in a case involving fetal alcohol syndrome. Starting in November, all manufacturers of beer, wine and liquor must put labels on their containers warning that alcohol can cause birth defects and other health problems...
...will succeed him? The leading Mr. Clean is Masayoshi Ito, 75, an elder statesman of the L.D.P. with a reputation for integrity. Among the five bickering factions that make up the L.D.P., he is the consensus choice, at least as a caretaker. But Ito, who is in poor health, has expressed his reluctance to take over, saying a "younger man" ought to get the job. Party insiders contend that Ito fears he will not be given sufficient independence. Already, a back-room struggle is under way as Takeshita and his supporters maneuver to ensure that they will continue to pull...
...group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck, and even moderates are concerned that the government has gone too far in snubbing controversial revolutionary leaders. "They are going to present people with a pasteurized, dissected, plastic...
...chores. Even senior partners are being laid off when their sales volume dwindles. "Loyalty and all that kind of stuff go out the window," says an executive of a major Chicago firm that is trimming 10% of its staff. "We're looking at whether we want to carry their health- and life-insurance costs. And when several brokers go, that's one less secretary...