Word: pill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although he broke with the Communist Party in 1956, Petri filmed cerebral fables intertwining politics and psychosis (The Tenth Victim, Todo Modo) that he considered propaganda for the oppressed. He acknowledged, however, that he craftily "coated the pill" with swift plots, kinky surfaces and a fidgety mosaic style...
...money, making credit more expensive for everyone. But this places far too much blame for high interest rates on budget deficits. The real problem is not the size of the government's share, but the limited size of the entire money supply. Instead of swallowing the harsh fiscal pill prescribed by Newsweek, which includes reform of governmental pensions. Medicare, and social security along with tax increases--interest rates can be reduced by easing restrictions on the money supply--a path the Federal Reserve Board is now following...
...cause is not always dietary, and symptoms often disappear within a year, whether or not diet is altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly lengthy," says CDC Epidemiologist José Cordero. In Poland, it was discovered in 1967 that parents working in birth-control pill factories were inadvertently exposing their children to estrogen powder clinging to their clothes. Elsewhere, insecticides, including DDT, have been associated with the disorder. So far, however, the CDC has failed to uncover any link between the outbreak and Puerto Rican birth-control pill factories, which produce 90% of the U.S. supply...
Taking three years to complete, the study involved a comparison of the use of the pill by 144 victims of ovarian cancer and 139 subjects randomly selected in the Boston area...
...investigation found that the greatest benefit were derived by woman over 40 who discontinued the use of the oral contraceptive more than 10 years before the investigation began. The five professors theorized that the pill protects older women by decreasing production of a particular group of hormones, the gonadotropins...