Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toekes had been harassed for months by Romanian authorities. He and his wife, who is pregnant, had remained inside his church since masked assailants tried to attack him in his neighboring apartment November 2, Berindei said, again quoting witnesses...
...same time, I left the Soviet Union with a sense of deep foreboding. We're getting to a point where Gorbachev and his colleagues will have to make some fundamental choices, all of them very difficult and all of them pregnant with dangers. He will either have to accelerate perestroika, really pushing it forward in the direction of pluralism and the free market, or he will have to engage in severe repression of the non-Russians...
...contrast, The Heartaches of a French Cat (Godine; $14.95) features a mute cast of felines. Author and illustrator Barbara McClintock places her 19th century tale onstage, where everything is expressed through the dramatic pose and the pregnant paws. Minette is pursued by the rakish Count Bisquet and the worthy Lionel. In the end she spurns them both to write her scandalous memoir, which becomes an overnight success. If there is any justice, so will this comic biography...
Still, the technique may be worth the trouble for those who oppose abortion but not IVF. The procedure may also appeal to mothers traumatized by past abortions. With current genetic tests, a pregnant woman waits nine weeks after conception before genetic analysis. With prefertilization testing, however, the parents could theoretically know from the start that their child has healthy genes...
...creative solution to the challenge of balancing risk and utilization. If risk is the only focus, as in this case, without addressing the needs of that community, how can the lines be drawn with equanimity? Also at risk are the blind, the differently abled, the aged, the novices, the pregnant women and the chemically dependent...