Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the major international service clubs have always been of, by and for men. Even after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1984 that states could force the Jaycees to admit women, three of the biggest clubs -- Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis -- stuck to their bans on female membership. But since the high court ruled on May 4 that states can also compel Rotary clubs to accept women, the walls of discrimination have been crumbling...
...July 4 the 1.37 million-member Lions Clubs International agreed to admit women, and last week the Kiwanians (312,000 strong) followed suit. An estimated 90% of the 5,600 delegates to a Washington convention of Kiwanis International roared the needed two-thirds approval that abolished the traditional men-only rule. The Kiwanians, said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, had sounded the "death knell for male-only economic organizations." Now, she went on, feminists can target all-male "dinosaurs such as the Cosmos Club ((in Washington)) and the Bohemian Club ((in San Francisco...
While it hurts to admit it, I've watched Arena football three times. The first time was just to get an idea of what this new action-packed league (the advertising commercial said so) is all about...
...fictional account of a Harvard 50 years in the future with 20 branch campuses overseas and vastly increased foreign student representation. This address and another speech at Notre Dame, both of which touted American preeminence in higher education, said specifically that universities should encourage more study overseas and admit more foreign students...
...scene of miracle working repeated often enough in hospitals throughout the country. A tiny human being, weighing merely a pound, enters the world with premature haste. His lungs are too rudimentary to admit vital air, his kidneys too weak to cleanse blood. Neonatologists, nurses and technicians descend, stabilizing his heartbeat and temperature, blanketing him in plastic and whisking him off to the intensive-care unit...