Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recruits join a team that has not reached its full potential, a team that promises to continue improving over the coming season...
Still, some old habits die hard. Many of today's Harvard students still opt for the company of small groups of educated men and women for their social life. A few hundred upperclassmen, about 10 percent of Harvard's male population, still join one of the nine all-male final clubs each year. But the University severed ties with the groups in July 1984, after pressure from undergraduate groups opposed to what they viewed as tacit endorsement of elitism and sexism...
...reason the boycott has been so widespread is that many people have been persuaded or coerced by the young activists to join the strike or suffer the consequences. To many of the township's residents, the choice is between paying the rent and risking retaliation by the militants or withholding the rent and facing eviction...
...many analysts, is being kept alive largely on the $46.7 million from United. Chicago-based United had conditioned the Frontier purchase in part on reaching an agreement with its 6,435-member chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association. Unless those pilots consented to let their Frontier counterparts join the United fleet at substantially lower wage levels, at least for a time, the People Express deal would be off. Despite much negotiation, the United pilots, who made substantial wage concessions only last year, continued to balk. United, which had already claimed some of Frontier's valuable gates and hangars...
...Douglas Stein offered dazzling visual imagery, from a demented New Year's Eve ball to a row of garret apartments that appeared, suffused with golden light, halfway up the back wall of the stage. This technical facility never overwhelmed the text. The finale, when Figaro (Tony Plana) returned to join the junta and declared that the real measure of progress would be if the life of Almaviva (Olek Krupa) was spared, was a simply staged moment of glowing humanity, edged with doubt about whether Figaro's decency would prevail...