Working Girls

Enough, I told myself. I must work for my girls, find them not just an unmarried girl s place in the world but a husband and a secure estate, the means to live comfortably, even perhaps a measure of happiness. 

An examination of 5550 boys and 5496 girls in Armenia showed a marked worsening of physical development indicators among rural newborns as pesticide exposure grew. These indicators were worst in families where the parents worked in contact with pesticides. In all studied cases, children in these families were more retarded in their physical development than children whose parents had no contact with pesticides. Children were most retarded in their physical development where both parents worked with pesticides [A99]. 

You a friend to me me, Julie Benoit who is sent away from the factory because I steal all that money No, no, I know better than that, you no friend to me, you despise me. All the girls point their finger at me, for I steal that money. But I give it all back, do I not And the superintendent he say it is my first offense and he will not send me to prison. Oh yes he is very kind. Julie have give back the money, Julie is forgiven, but she is a thief and cannot work with honest people. She must go, and without a reference. No one could recommend a thief. Well, Julie does go, so why you not let her alone ... 

I, for one, wouldn t work in the same room with a girl like that, said a third, with a toss of her head. I wouldn t dare leave any of my belongings out of my sight for a single... 

As the girls departed, each to her own machine or work-table, Miss Merton looked after them, a tear in her eye and a smile upon her lips. 

Stephens RJ, Girling DJ, Bleehen NM, et al. The role of post-operative radiotherapy in non-small-cell lung cancer A multicentre randomized trial in patients with pathologically staged Tl-2, Nl-2, MO disease. Medical Research Council Lung Cancer Working Party. BrJ Cancer 1996 74 632-639. 

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