Word: infantability
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Pressure groups began assailing specific budget rollbacks. The American Public Health Association protested a $5 billion cut in federal health programs. The consequence: increases in malnutrition, infant mortality and heart disease. Dr. George E. Pickett, one of the association's past presidents, warned that eliminating up to 5 million children from immunization programs could lead to outbreaks of measles and poliomyelitis. He termed the Reagan policy a "return to the world of Charles Dickens...
...Polish military authorities reportedly in a guesthouse outside Warsaw. The photograph of his wife Danuta and their child, the first known to exist, was taken by a Solidarity photographer and smuggled out to the West. The archbishop of Wroclaw, Henryk Gulbinowicz, is trying to organize a baptism for the infant with the entire Walesa clan in attendance. As for whether the proud father would be allowed to participate by the hard-line government, the archbishop can offer only a prayer...
...Washington, Lawyer Catherine Stevens, 37, wife of the Senate majority whip, Alaska's Ted Stevens, occasionally uses convenient Secret Service agents as baby sitters for her six-month-old daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something...
...lives in an urban area and has a college education. The chances are that she will not replace her own generation?as did her mother?by having 2.2 babies. She will probably have only one child. One thing is certain. She will go at fertility, pregnancy, delivery and infant care with an aggressive elan. She will not become pregnant at the whim of the tides, but when she can clear her agenda. Says Richard Levinson, an Emory University sociologist in Atlanta: "Women in this age and economic stratum are saying, 'If I'm going to do this...
Just as important as the network is the attitude of businessmen and backers toward infant enterprises. They see failure as a demonstration of an adventurous intellect, not as a shortcoming. Says Gordon Moore, 53, the chairman of Intel Corp., a major semiconductor manufacturer: "Even when someone starts a company and fails, he'll be more valuable than someone else the next time because of his business experience." The result is an effervescent creative spirit that bubbles like California's best sparkling wine. Says Dallas-based LJ. Sevin, managing partner of Sevin Rosen Partners, which invests heavily...