Word: accountant
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...greeting card (women account for 90% of card purchases...
...same time, the face of the work force is changing dramatically. While the labor force will grow slowly over the next decade, two-thirds of the increase will be women starting or returning to work; minority males and immigrants will account for much of the rest. Most startling, only 9.3% of the new workers will represent the population from which nearly all top corporate managers have sprung: white, non-Hispanic U.S.-born...
...women -- from cholesterol-lowering drugs and diets to AIDS therapies and antidepressants -- have been studied almost exclusively in men. Little hard evidence exists about their efficacy or safety for women. The problem has begun to concern doctors, patients and now lawmakers. In June Congress's General Accounting Office released a report condemning the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for failing to promote studies that took adequate account of the differences between the sexes. The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, which commissioned the study, introduced a $237 million legislative package in July aimed at achieving "parity in medical research." Said...
...LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH ON THE JOB FOR WOMEN IS HOMICIDE. OF WOMEN FATALLY HURT AT WORK FROM 1980 TO 1985, 42% WERE MURDERED, 64% BY GUN. AMONG MEN, ACCIDENTS ARE THE TOP OCCUPATIONAL KILLER; HOMICIDES ACCOUNT FOR JUST...
...have a fear of being like the generation before us, which lost itself," says Julia Parsons, 24, a second-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center. "I don't want to find myself at 35 with no family. It's a big fear." Big enough, it seems, to account for a marked shift away from 1980s-style workaholism. The TIME poll found that 51% put having a long and happy marriage and raising well-adjusted children ahead of career success...