Word: joined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union, however, agreed to allow B.U. a "maintenance of shop" clause, forcing current union members to remain in the union for the duration of the contract but allowing new employees to choose whether to join. A majority of the university's approximately 800 clerical workers belong to the union...
Carter announced his plan while flying to Hartford to attend a meeting of the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association. At that conference he said that, although he admires retired people, "I'm not yet tempted to join your ranks any time soon...
...known in full. When Godunov, one of the most brilliant of Soviet ballet stars, made his rush to freedom, he did not-or could not-take her with him. Upholding U.S. law prohibiting forced repatriation, the State Department insisted on interviewing Vlasova to see if she wanted to join her husband. Belatedly, the State Department moved to keep her in the country by preventing her Aeroflot jetliner from taking off until, in the words of Deputy Secretary Warren Christopher, she could be interviewed in "noncoercive surroundings...
From his Pacific heights Nixon detects a change among intellectuals abroad and here. "They are beginning to take a second look at the world around them, a more realistic look." If they can join with the leaders of American society, then, he believes, we may be headed out of an era "lost in uncertainty" and "paralyzed by propriety." That way, says the exile, this "dicey time" could turn into an era of opportunity...
...local is seeking modified union shop status under which present clerical workers could choose whether to join, and new workers would have to join District 65. The administration rejected this proposal...