Word: laborities
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...much would you pay for lunch with a Kennedy, a private meeting with the U.S. Secretary of Labor and an all-access pass to the political annals of the nation’s capital...
...whether our decision to send troops to Iraq can serve its initial purpose of preserving peace and reconstructing Iraq." Emboldened by their electoral triumph, the younger generation that has rescued Roh and the Uri Party will now expect to be heard?whether on Iraq and North Korea or on labor issues and women's rights. Says Park Sooni, a 30-year-old English teacher and Uri supporter: "We're taking the lead from now on." After months of mayhem?much of it caused by top politicians like Roh himself?it's time somebody took the lead...
...scheduled operations for all sorts of less-than-critical reasons. One young college student arranged her baby's birth to avoid conflict with her final exams. Another woman was convinced a C-section would ensure that her child's head had a nice round shape. Others are terrified of labor pains and complicated deliveries or want to avoid the wear and tear on their bodies. Some, as the British tabloids have put it, are simply "too posh to push...
...practice under 'Do no harm,'" says Dr. Kimberly Gregory, director of maternal-fetal medicine and women's health services at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. "Surgery is a major procedure." Gregory says most women ask for C-sections because they're afraid of complicated deliveries or long, painful labor. Though she has performed a few elective procedures, she doesn't do them routinely and says good doctors should be able to allay women's fears by discussing the use of drugs and breathing techniques, which can ease pain...
...Hospital in Denver. When her first child was due last year, she scheduled her own C-section. Warner had spent the past five years surgically reconstructing pelvic-floor muscles and repairing leaky bladders in women who had experienced difficult natural deliveries. She didn't want to risk a hard labor herself...