Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With all the drama of a Whisk commercial (you know, "ring around the collar!"), two young women tell about their plans for the future. One wants to be President. The other intends to go back to college. Then a third actress, obviously pregnant, says she had planned to have a family--"but not this soon." As she sets the table, a voice-over tells viewers to call a toll-free number for information on contraceptives. Now that's hardly risque...
...addition to writing poetry, Levins-Morales has also worked as an interpreter with Salvadoran refugees. She said one of the poems she read, about the brutal murder of a pregnant woman by the Salvadoran police, was based directly on a refugee's story...
...letter the other day from a woman . . . saying, 'We agreed when I was pregnant that you would not take any responsibility for my child, but I would like you to see what a fine boy he's grown up to be.' And there's a picture of a grown-up boy on the beach." But, says Orson Welles, "I don't remember having met her . . . I don't believe it's true because I don't think I have that poor a memory. But anything is possible...
...book's no-nonsense tone is particularly effective in treating some of the delicate subjects that surround the recent arrival of women in the executive suite. A pregnant employee is advised to exercise restraint in publicly describing her physical condition. Baldrige approvingly quotes a woman who proclaims that "a daily report on varicose veins is enough to put women back at least 3,000 years." At the same time, men are counseled not to bombard a pregnant colleague with questions like "Are you going to stop working?" and "If you're coming back, when will you?" On sexual harassment, Baldrige...
...periodically check that the device was still in place. The problem with the tail, some investigators believe, is that it soaked up bacteria from the vagina and allowed the microbes to pass into the uterus. That often caused infection, which sometimes resulted in sterility. In some cases, women became pregnant despite the IUD and suffered miscarriages because of infection. In 1974 Robins suspended sales of the device after receiving evidence that linked the Dalkon Shield to four deaths...