Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failure; the film has only one star, and little explicit sex or violence. But if critics were doing their jobs, rather than giving glib lip-service to politics, the film at least might have won the audience that flocked to Sounder. Conrack's makers took a story pregnant with social meaning and developed it in their own light, with unforced grit and soul; it would be scandalous if its poor showing kept others from doing the same. If filmmakers must fear being labeled "sentimental liberals" for telling the truth artistically, as they see it, the creative and critical arenas...
However, the measures would not allow researchers to administer drugs to pregnant women who do not need them medically, then induce abortion in an attempt to determine the extent to which the drug is passed on to the fetus...
...added that pregnant women who consented to take drugs tolerated the administrations "without any discomfort or pain...
When a worker falls ill or is injured, many large employers pay disability benefits without a murmur. The pregnant employee, however, generally gets no money for time taken as maternity leave. In a potentially far-reaching decision, Federal Judge Robert Merhige has found General Electric Co. guilty of sex discrimination in denying such benefits to pregnant workers. Ruling on a suit filed in 1972 by GE women, the judge dismissed the company's argument that pregnancy is incurred "voluntarily." Said he: "This standard is not applied in informal sports injuries, most of which could also be avoided by appropriate...
...Malcolm (George O'Hanlon Jr.). They abandon their virginity on Christmas Eve with all of the uncertainty but none of the accomplishment that characterized Abby's liaison. Muffy blames it all on her never-ending bad luck, the consequences of which approach sentimental catastrophe when she becomes pregnant...