Word: pill
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...this busiest of U.S. obstetrics units also symbolizes an American failure: the extent to which the birth control revolution has not fulfilled its promise in the country where it began. Three decades after the Pill was introduced in the U.S., a shocking number of the 58 million American women of childbearing age still find it difficult to control their own reproduction, especially compared with women in other countries. Teenage pregnancy in the U.S. is more than double that of European countries, and the nation's abortion rate -- 1.6 million a year -- is one of the highest in the developed world...
...only one (Ortho Pharmaceutical) is still active. The others have been scared off by the fear of costly lawsuits like the one that drove the maker of the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine device, into bankruptcy, and by public controversy such as that surrounding RU-486, the French "abortion pill...
Many Iraqis expect the government eventually to go through the motions of holding elections, though no date has been set. "The sugar pill will be administered to the patient," says a Baghdad medical worker. Like many others, he does not expect the balloting to be free or fair. "It's only a month since you had tanks driving over bodies. Do you think there can be free elections? Is this possible...
Although their numbers were well sung, the Tigertones did not exactly push the limits of a capella excitement. With the exceptions of "Kiss the Girl," from The Little Mermaid, and a medley of college alma maters, the Tigertones' performance was little more than a sleeping pill. Among their crimes: stripping the soul from "My Girl." It is ironic that the group sang "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Shu Bomp Shu Bomp)"--the answer certainly was not the Tigertones...
...toughest pill for the West to swallow may be its own impotence. Beyond signaling their displeasure, Washington and Europe can do little to affect events inside the U.S.S.R. "The Soviets are sensitive to what is being said abroad," says a French official. "But frankly, we can't hope that what we do will cause Moscow to change its behavior." Moreover, some analysts advise that punishing Gorbachev for the blood spilled in Vilnius and Riga by withdrawing Western aid might undercut him and strengthen Soviet hard-liners. A U.S. official points out that almost all the aid Washington has pledged "will...