Word: motherhood
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...Cause we love peace and motherhood...
Nonetheless, a 1976 study of 3,000 jurors in 18 court systems found that 90% had a favorable reaction to jury duty. "Jury duty is like motherhood," says Tom Munsterman, executive director of the Center for Jury Studies, a private, nonprofit research organization in McLean, Va. "People are for it. If we don't get an 80% favorable response in any particular court, that court is in deep trouble." Adds one New York City executive: "It is a major responsibility to reach a verdict, and every jury I have served on has taken the responsibility very seriously. Twelve strangers...
...career has been primarily European: between 1968 and 1976 she did not sing in the U.S. at all. True, there were what she describes as "minor tax problems" with the Internal Revenue Service in 1966, but they were not what kept her away. The reason, she says, was motherhood...
Some avoided the paradox, supported by progressive parents who dispelled the notion that a woman had to choose between a career and motherhood. Marina von Neumann Whitman, for example, credits her family's unspoken "assumption that anyone with talent could succeed" with her ability to persevere despite the "conflicting signals" at Radcliffe. Radcliffe gave a wonderful intellectual freedom as well as the expectation that we automatically had to be mothers. This we either didn't notice or took for granted." says Whitman, who was recently named vice president and chief economist of the General Motors Corporation after being a protessor...
...feel. Even if the pregnancy resulted from rape." Opponents of abortion need to face hard questions. Why should the Government mandate that pregnancy not be ended when the woman is the victim of rape or incest? Or when there is evidence that she is physically or psychologically unsuited for motherhood? Or when examinations prove that the fetus will be born dead or hopelessly defective...