Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUPREME COURT'S recent ruling that company health plans need not provide benefits for disabilities related to pregnancy marks a serious step backward for women's rights in this country. By deciding (by a six-man majority) that General Electric need not give pregnant employees sick pay, the court lent legitimacy to the idea that motherhood and employment are mutually exclusive...
...sick and tired of reading your reports about India [Dec. 20]. The only things you have to say are negative. Perhaps this sells well, but there are certain things that you should know...
...them up after classes, and sports enthusiasts, who can play golf or tennis in the early morning or late afternoon. Supervisors report that productivity generally improves under Flextime?since employees can work at the hours when they feel most alert?and that absenteeism drops. Workers no longer call in sick for an entire day in order to get a couple of hours to attend to personal business...
...become a nation of uneasy skeptics, sure only that Presidents are seldom what they seem and attuned to hear in every little psychological discord the dirge of neurosis. Gerald Ford should have taught us better: that a President can be wrong in important ways without in the least being sick. Jimmy Carter may turn out wrong-is bound to in some ways-but I for one will be surprised if his major troubles grow out of his character...
...counterculture magazine called Muzak, and Marco Lombardo-Radice, 27, a psychologist who specializes in working with teenagers, Winged Pigs shows that today's students are rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk that doesn't mean anything." Tired of total sexual freedom, the lovers settle down together for a while, thus typifying a trend that Italian sociologists have labeled "a return to the steady couple...