Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WEAKEST TAKEOVER DEFENSE Pillsbury's "just say no" strategy failed to fend off British consumer-products giant Grand Metropolitan. The Dough Boys also tried a "poison pill" strategy that would have awarded current stockholders a larger share of the company, making it far more expensive to purchase. But a Delaware chancery court ruled against Pillsbury's tactic, and it was gobbled up last week for $5.C5 billion...
...woman on earth who wants them. According to surveys by the United Nations and other organizations, fully half the 463 million married women in developing countries (excluding China) do not want more children. Yet many have little or no access to effective methods of birth control, such as the Pill and the intrauterine device (IUD). The World Bank estimates that making birth control readily available on a global basis would require that the $3 billion now spent annually on family-planning services be increased to $8 billion by the year 2000. The increase in funds could shave projected world population...
...twist. It appears that only those who say what the union wants to hear will be allowed a voice. Staff members who voted against the union in May did so because they were convinced that a union was not the answer. NLRB certification of HUCTW has been a difficult pill to swallow but, despite this disappointment, many of the "No" voters have expressed a willingness to become involved in the process of creating a strong and worthwhile union, one which will accomplish good things for all who are to be represented...
...solid understanding of defense issues. While hardly a hawk. Bradley avoids the image of knee-jerk anti-militarism that afflicted Dukakis. After twelve years of Republicans in the White House, fielding a candidate whose primary flaw is one vote for Contra aid should not be too bitter a pill to swallow to elect a Democratic President...
Women who use oral contraceptives when they are young do not face increased risk of heart disease after they stop taking the pill, said Meir J. Stampfer, an associate professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health and one of the researchers...