Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopkins was hired as a manager in the Washington office of Price Waterhouse, the giant nationwide accounting firm. Four years later, she was nominated for promotion to partnership, the only woman among 88 candidates that year. She looked like a winner. Despite the demands that go with being the mother of three children, she had helped bring in between $34 million and $44 million in business to the firm and had billed more hours in the preceding year than any other candidate...
...unable to outbid Likud. The morning after the election, Shamir announced his willingness to amend the Law of Return, which grants all Jewish immigrants immediate Israeli citizenship. For years the religious parties have sought to redefine "who is a Jew" by recognizing only those born to a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism by an Orthodox rabbi. The proposal to disregard all other conversions has particularly upset U.S. Jews, most of whom identify themselves with the Conservative and Reform branches of Judaism...
...young boy in the crowd turned to his mother. "Is that a chicken?" he asked...
...mother said, but did not fill him in on what the object...
...risks of major surgery, including complications associated with anesthesia, blood transfusions and infection, especially of the uterus. The incidence of maternal mortality is twice as high for women who undergo repeat caesareans, and infants are at increased risk for respiratory problems and distress caused by anesthesia given to the mother. On balance, the benefits of vaginal deliveries after C-sections have long outweighed the advantages of surgical births. Says R. Harold Holbrook Jr., director of maternal-fetal medicine at the Stanford Medical Center: "It's been clearly proved that it's safe to have a natural birth after having...