Word: member
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Last summer, however, perhaps feeling overly buoyant about his good national press, Agnew began lobbying clumsily for Administration programs. He started with the ABM, buttonholing members on the Senate floor, then repeated the mistake in an attempt to get the income-tax surcharge extended for a year. As a wheeler-dealer, he failed ingloriously and provoked a curt civics lesson from Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "A Vice President should not interfere in Senate affairs regardless of his party. He is not a member of the Senate. He's a half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature...
According to the statement's last paragraph, the reason for publicizing the University policy was "so that each member of the community will understand its importance and their individual responsibility to contribute toward its maximum fulfillment...
Richard Sternhell, a member of the National Moratorium Committee, which is among the groups planning the Washington protest, said yesterday that the demonstration's organizers are presently considering the possibility of banning the display of flags at the march...
...member wishes to run for a seat on the board of directors. he can place his name on the ballot by submitting an endorsement petition with 100 members' signatures. Only if someone challenges the stockholders slate will there be an election. Moreover, a quorum of at least five per cent must vote to make a contested election legal...
...PLAY was first written as part of a government-funded WPA program to support artists, the Washington powers-that-be cut off funds for the performance. The theatre scheduled for the opening night performance was sealed to the audience and actors. While the audience stood outside the theatre, a member of the cast found another unoccupied theatre and the play was presented there...