Word: membership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's readiness to listen to--and act on--demands for change is persuasive evident that the student confrontation was wilfully (sic) sought, not to reform but to destroy. In every area from the institution of a pioneering major in Afro-American studies to termination of academic credit for membership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, Harvard showed not only an awareness of the need for change but did change...
...policies as official guideposts and formally designate Lin as his heir. The congress will also legitimize the new leadership that has emerged from the crucible of the purges. Finally, the delegates will select a new Central Committee. The old committee was purged of at least two-thirds of its membership, including such leading figures as President Liu Shaochi and Teng Hsiao-ping, the party secretary-general. With that, the congress will officially establish the ruling group that may well preside over the post-Mao succession period...
...designed to take advantage of Britain's stiff licensing regulations, which have led to a proliferation of "private" clubs. Gambling houses have to be licensed as clubs; so do any drinking places that stay open after 11 p.m. Anyone who joins Clubman's is provided with full membership in 400 not-so-choosy gambling, drinking, golf, tennis, striptease and other clubs, most of which charge a nominal yearly fee of $2.40 or more. Clubman's members, who pay $15 a year, receive little red booklets that list the clubs and serve as entrance passes. In return...
...Coop a profitable business, while at the same time offering both low prices and a rebate is becoming harder and harder each year. Although he won't know for sure until the close of the Coop's fiscal year at the end of June, Brown is afraid that the membership rebates will have to be cut again this year. "Nobody wants to cut them," says Brown. "But we can't pay what we don't earn. As they say, you can't get blood out of a turnip...
Members account for about 82 per cent of the Coop's sales. Thus, 82 per cent of the Coop's profits go back to the membership at the end of the year. The other 18 per cent gets cut in half by taxes, and the remainder is all the Coop has left for reinvestment and growth. Although the Coop appears to have a lot of money, it really doesn't. There are not large sums hidden away in the vaults of the Harvard Trust. In fact, whenever the Coop has needed to expand in recent years...