Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more distressing aspect of your editorial. "Financial elitism" as practiced by the clubs entails charging dues that "not everyone can afford," so you say. Interesting. My first year as a member of one of the clubs I worked dorm crew, cleaning toilets for my extra pocket money, some of which I allotted at the account-busting rate of about 60 dollars a month to my club. One year the club roof sprung a leak. Where did they come up with the six grand needed to fix it? And who paid for the food served at the dinners, or the electric...
...finally, one other distressing aspect of your editorial. You wrote, "When women are excluded from the clubs, they are excluded from the unparalleled resources of the clubs and from the `old boy' alumni contacts which the clubs foster." Well, I hate to be the one to break the news, but...has anyone told you about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy? Well, about these clubs....You know, I guess you could call a flooding basement an "unparalleled resource"...I mean, I know some guys in the Sahara who would kill for one of these. And our pool table is fairly...
...That is not to say Harvard was responsible," said Egar, but he said the sociological aspect of the case would be one issue that he would raise in trial...
Shmelyov said that the Soviet currency was another aspect of the Soviet economy in great need of reform...
...professional, but some are housewives," says Barbara Mueller, vice president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "They don't have a cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and they're not closet commandos." Though more women are appearing at shooting ranges and gun clubs, the sporting aspect is not really the issue. The vast majority who are buying guns -- about 75%, by most estimates -- are doing so to protect their homes and themselves...