Word: joining
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...Supreme Court adopted the exclusionary rule, a controversial method of enforcing the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful searches and seizures. Now, years later, our Supreme Court has elected to examine the rule and possibly join a "good-faith exception" to it. One wonders whether the drafters of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights intended that our constitutional protections be diminished whenever a majority of a particular Supreme Court disagrees with the philosophy of, and necessity for, the safeguards...
...guerrillas have made one strong argument in favor of their own terms for negotiation. In El Salvador's violent climate, they and their allies can legitimately fear for their lives if they lay down their arms and join the country's fragile democratic political process. In 1981, for example, six Revolutionary Democratic Front leaders were murdered after a political rally in San Salvador. Says Leftist Spokesman Ungo: "We are not so stupid as to participate in elections that will result in our ending up in a cemetery...
...oral contraceptive in 1951, the small pharmaceuticals maker grew within a few years into a large conglomerate (fiscal year 1982 revenues: $813 million). A host of other companies has made fortunes supplying what is now a huge U.S. contraceptives market. A small firm in California called V.L.I. hopes to join their ranks with a new kind of contraceptive that is likely to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration within a month...
...United Methodist Church, which has lost 1.4 million members since 1968, would normally welcome most converts. But its leaders must rue the day in 1979 when David Jessup, who had become a religious dropout in college, decided to join the Marvin Memorial Church of Silver Spring, Md. Jessup, 42, who works with the AFL-CIO'S Committee on Political Education, began to have questions about organizations that received Methodist funds. The end result of his curiosity is the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which, though small, can justly claim credit for the present furor over Protestant politics...
...surpisingly, the members of the Major Gifts Committee were drawn from those who had already made major gifts. As large donations came in during the first years, Harvard would ask contributors to join the committee. "In the early phases of the drive, we would keep adding people to the Major Gifts Committee as they made gifts of $100,000 or more," Glimp explains. From an initial size of about 100, the body has grown to about 180 today, he adds...