Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...raising money is already easier than itonce was. National fundraising organizationssupporting women candidates, such as Emily's Listand the Women's Campaign Fund, have beenincreasingly able to help women surmount financialdisadvantages...
Steven Wieber, a Boston resident, was help up at knife point 12:55 Sunday morning by two men at Kirkland and Irving Streets, according to the Cambridge police...
...exacerbated by a generation of would-be parents who put off having babies until their 30s and 40s -- and the early successes of in-vitro ("test tube") fertilization have laid the groundwork for a revolution in reproductive technology. Hardly a week goes by without news of a breakthrough to help nature take its course. Last week produced two such announcements: one offers new hope to women with blocked Fallopian tubes; the other promises to extend women's fertility beyond their prime childbearing years -- even past menopause...
...tiny balloon similar to those used to clear blocked arteries, scientists were able to unclog the Fallopian tubes in 64 of 77 women, 22 became pregnant within a year. Dr. Edmond Confino, who pioneered the technique at Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, estimates that it could help nearly one-third of the 1 million American women who suffer from blocked tubes...
...mayor hopes the move will improve the city's financial situation by saving more than $4 million this year and that its symbolism will help New Yorkers accept cuts in city services. "We have no choice but to make our local government fit the size of our local economy," he said. "We must all bear our share of the pain." Local Teamsters president Barry Feinstein suspects less noble motives. He says the mayor, facing delicate contract talks with his organization and another major municipal labor union, is simply trying "to make a case that there is no money available...