Word: club
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...entrenched dynasties. Yet the accretion of scandal also appears to be eroding support for the President among some in the business community, one of her power bases. "We're really distressed about the way she lurches from one fiasco to another," says Alberto Lim, director of the Makati Business Club, an influential lobbying group that has previously called for Arroyo's resignation...
...self-ownership axiom,” but he adamantly believes that the way to raise people out of economic despondency is not through redistribution, but through work by individuals as a community to help the community. This humanitarian view is shared by many members of the club...
...Sheffield and Harris are just two of many, as others in the club and student body hold diverse views of libertarianism. Professor Miron, who in past years taught the popular class, “A Libertarian Perspective on Economic and Social Policy,” sees himself and many of his students and colleagues as libertarian, at least in tendency...
...Loewer echoes Harris. While Cornell’s libertarian club maintains a healthy 50 member average “on paper,” Loewer believes that Libertarianism as a party and political force is still pretty far away. But he maintains that libertarian philosophy will become a force to be reckoned with in American politics, whether or not it’s under the libertarian banner...
...thought there were way too many counterproductive dimensions.” Rumsfeld did not return phone messages left at his Hoover Institution office.In his time in Congress, Leach also took progressive positions on the environment and on gay rights. He won an award from the Sierra Club in 1999 and an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, in 2006.Leach’s positions have occasionally brought him into conflict with his own party leadership. In 1996, he voted against the GOP’s nominee for speaker of the House, citing ethics concerns about...