Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...finding stemmed from a complaint by the United Food and Commercial Workers union that the secret behind Nordstrom's service is grueling pressure to produce sales. The union provided testimony from some former employees who complained of ulcers and 15-hour stretches of work without breaks. Nordstrom acknowledges its hard-driving culture but contends that the claims are exaggerated. Says co-chairman Jim Nordstrom: "Sometimes in an effort to increase production, management may overdo it. We're contest-motivated, and if that puts too much pressure on our people, I'll take the fall on this...
Sure, said Ronald Reagan, he believed in the Nicaraguan contras and wanted them to prosper. But he never instructed his aides to violate a congressional prohibition on giving them Government aid. He never knew that the profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been used to arm the anti-Sandinista guerrillas. His admonition to his staff, he insisted, was always, "We don't break...
...dirty little secret about the birth-control "revolution" is this: three decades after the introduction of the Pill, many of the more than 57 million American women of childbearing age are still unable to control their reproduction. The proof: about six million unwanted pregnancies occur in the U.S. each year. Not only are all the available methods of contraception inconvenient, only partially effective or potentially risky, but the array of devices to choose from is also getting smaller, not larger. Some women must visit several doctors and spend hundreds of dollars before finding the contraceptive that is best for them...
...When Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison Farm last week, TIME's Peter Magubane was on hand to photograph the moment. The two men would not have the opportunity to embrace until two days later, however, when Magubane would be called to a secret location on Mandela's first day back in Johannesburg. "I wasn't taking pictures," Magubane says. "I said, 'You look quite good. You haven't changed.' It was a relief to see him out of prison." Two nights later, the two men, who have known each other nearly 40 years, shared...
...Germans and three-fourths of West Germans favor unification. But with unification likely to take place sooner than almost anyone expected, East Germans are beginning to realize that they are going to lose the attractive sides of communism (subsidized housing, guaranteed jobs) as well as the less desirable aspects (secret police, censorship). Across the border, meanwhile, West Germans are starting to fret about the high costs of adopting their poor relations...