Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is one point that everyone involved with Harvard's birth control program agrees on, it's that there is no method available today that will satisfy all. "Contraception at present means a choice among a number of inadequate methods," says Wacker. The chief birth control couselor, Ann Bisbee '62, assistant to the director, says the service at UHS "is integrated into a woman's medical care. What we try to tell them is that there are no perfect methods. We try to tell them the facts...
...internists themselves maintain that they present a standard and balanced repertoire and don't push any particular methods. Wacker, for instance, sizes up the pill to prospective users by first admitting that it has side-effects, but they are all fairly well-known. Since the estrogen levels of the pill have been reduced, "you don't find any increasing toxity," Wacker says, adding that the pill has now been used safely for the past 15 to 16 years. Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard...
...assignment method presently used allowed women officers first choice of routes after the first 40 assignments are made on the basis of seniority...
...statement was made in a letter last Friday to Edward Pollock, a graduate students in Slavic Languages and Literature. Pollock, a student security Patrol Officer, had previously written a complaint to Gorski protesting the existing method of route assignments...
Edward M. Powers, director of employee relations, said yesterday that a new method of spift assignments should "not distinguish between men and women...