Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summoning her balanced, surprisingly moderate 22-member Cabinet for its inaugural meeting, she delivered what her listeners regarded as a lively pep talk. With impressive confidence, her colleagues reported, she stressed the need of a measured return to more limited government and self-reliance...
...held no official positions in the Shah's regime. At the same time, the conflict between the ruling Islamic conservatives and the angry left grew wider, as government and religious leaders blamed the Communists for the assassination on May 1 of Morteza Motahari, a prominent Ayatullah and a member of the Revolutionary Council...
...first week in May. Other dissidents briefly seized the embassy of Costa Rica, while a third group took the French ambassador and his staff as hostages. All the protesters vowed to remain in place until El Salvador's military government released five leaders of a 30,000-member mass movement organization called the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (B.P.R.) who had been jailed in April...
Eileen J. Southern, chairman of Afro-American Studies, now makes all hiring decisions. She is on leave this semester. Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies and the other tenured member in the department, is semiretired...
...most influential of the business lobbies. In addition, more than 500 corporations maintain lobbying staffs in Washington. These corporations can deduct, as business expenses on their tax returns, the costs of direct lobbying legislators. In addition, trade associations can finance their lobbying activities through the tax deductible dues of member businesses. Individual citizens, on the other hand, enjoy no such tax privileges when petitioning their elected representatives...