Word: joined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland newly installed Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski took a different approach. As the government continued the daunting task of reaching a compromise with the leadership of Solidarity, the banned trade union, Rakowski invited four independent and opposition figures to join his Cabinet last week. Though all four rebuffed him, Rakowski promised to hold the seats open in case they changed their minds. As he admitted to TIME last week, "Our centralized system for decades has limited individuals' abilities to adapt, to take initiatives. We have to get rid of all those blockages...
...years and should fare well on the familiar Cambridge waters. Cari Graves, former head coach of Radcliffe Crew and perhaps the greatest oarswoman the U.S. has ever produced, will be rowing in the "1980 Rowing Club." Graves, who won a gold medal in the Eights in Los Angeles, will join several members of the U.S. women's 1980 Olympic rowing team...
Only after their race is over, when they have lifted their boat out of the water and set it aside, do the rowers get to join in the merriment...
...second half of the 20th century is closing in. It is much less respectable these days to join a gentlemen's club that bans women except when the members are lonely...
...final clubs, however, we find a different situation. Not everyone is welcome to join the final clubs. On the contrary, the preference for voluntary segregation is the driving force behind them...