Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, the experts called for increased prenatal care for poor women and for drug and alcohol abusers. These women have a much greater chance of giving birth prematurely, and their infants often suffer from low birth weight and other difficulties. The shift in emphasis is "an attempt to use scarce health dollars more efficiently," says Rosen. The report could influence private insurers and government programs to alter reimbursement policies for pre-natal care...
Element 4: Action can and must be taken. Lactose intolerance is not an issue for the weak; campus activists worth their weight in styrofoam can make a difference...
...East German man about 30 years old was seenclimbing the fence to the embassy. A policeofficer hung on, exerting all his weight to bringthe climber down. Refugees inside the fence clungto the man and shouted for help...
Oblivious to any danger, the woman stands stiffly and stares at the matching coffins. The silence puts on a little weight and becomes fat before she stoops to her handbag and takes out a small transistor radio. She carefully places it on the pine box of her daughter-in-law, in the grave that is the dead bride's new home. "What can it hurt?" she says, looking daggers at the stiff-burner. "Maybe they'll want to listen to some music...
...strapping six-footer, Bi "got into the weight-lifting craze about two years ago, when it was big." He still pumps iron each morning before breakfast, which he takes at a local restaurant with four colleagues. Eating out is actually cheaper than cooking at home for Bi, since coal is very expensive. Besides, Bi is saving for new eyeglasses. He hates his thick lenses and believes he would not need them if he had grown up in the West. "Until about five years ago, we didn't have electricity," he says. "I read by candlelight till then. My eyes...