Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Food Lion stores in the U.S. Most of those employees receive no benefits and are paid 40% less than the wages earned at rival stores, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which hopes to organize the Food Lion workers. The Belgian workers plan to keep up their campaign for a year...
...them are suckers for children. Their decorating tends to rainbows, balloons and sentimental posters -- A BABY IS GOD'S WAY OF SAYING THE WORLD SHOULD GO ON. (No irony intended there.) They keep a diary for each child: "He can go from the living room to the kitchen in ten seconds at a crawl . . . Eating paper is his favorite pastime...
...produces an erection. The penis is sheathed in an acrylic tube, and a hand pump is used to force out air from around the penis. The resulting vacuum draws blood into the penis until it becomes rigid. Rubber bands are then slipped onto the base of the penis to keep the blood from escaping; the bands can be left in place safely for half an hour. The vacuum machine costs about $450. Urologist Perry Nadig of San Antonio has followed 340 of his patients who have used the device, some for as long as six years; fully...
...body cavities -- as in open-heart or orthopedic surgery -- surgeons can reclaim half of it with suction devices, cleanse it in purifying machines and send it back into the patient. The rest is lost because it either spills out or is soaked up by the gauze sponges used to keep the operating field...
...many diplomats, Shultz's battle to keep Arafat away from the U.N. was another indication of his fervid antipathy toward the P.L.O. and its head, a position that threatens to undercut U.S. influence in the Middle East. "I know it's his gut feeling," said a senior aide, "but it's taking us out of the diplomatic game...