Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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British Director David William emphasizes the languorous melancholy beneath the romantic comedy, the narcissistic infatuation with the image of oneself being in love. This does bring out "the dying fall" aspects of the play. However, too many of the pregnant pauses give birth to nothing...
...week by a vote of 6 to 3. At issue was a California law that provides payments for private employees who are temporarily disabled but excepts those with disabilities attributable to normal pregnancy. Speaking for the majority, Justice Potter Stewart found no evidence that California's treatment of pregnant women violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Concerned with the costs of increasing disability coverage, he wrote: "Nothing requires the state to create a more comprehensive social insurance program than it already...
...recruitment and admission of students to the 2,500 or so federally aided colleges and universities in the U.S. Also barred will be discrimination that takes the form of separate ranking of applicants by sex, sex-biased admission tests and consideration of whether or not an applicant is married, pregnant, or already a parent. Further, schools will be expected "to remedy the effects of past discrimination...
Penicillin sometimes produces adverse effects on fetuses when administered to diseased pregnant women. The doctors were analyzing the effect of two substitute drugs by administering them to pregnant women who had agreed to undergo therapeutic abortions. The researchers then cultured the tissue from the aborted fetuses to determine how much of the drug had been transmitted from the pregnant women across the placenta...
...Tarnopol's account definitely has the chamberpot stench. He tells how, in an uncontrollable fit of anger, he literally beat the shit out of his wife. When he learned how she had tricked him into marrying her by faking a pregnancy test--she bought a pregnant woman's urine on the street--he went into a frenzy and ended up inexplicably donning some of his wife's underwear. All of this--even if safely banished to a past behind Tarnopol telling how he told Spielvogel about it--still leaves an impression of twisted relationships and crude impulses in conflict that...