Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government along with the Socialists and the Communists, represented the "liberal" wing of the subservient National Assembly during the Caetano regime. Party Leader Francisco Sa Carneiro, 40, defends its participation in politics under the dictatorship as "a struggle from within." The P.D.P. espouses a Swedish-style "social democracy" and membership in the European Common Market...
...most members, two-thirds of whom have had no prior church membership, come because of the wide-ranging community-service programs. When studies showed a high illiteracy rate in Orange County, the church started a reading class. Schuller began a separate ministry to singles after census reports established that they make up two-fifths of the region's population. A 24-hour-telephone crisis service handles 20,000 calls a year-a number of them from potential suicides. The budget for all church and TV operations is $4.8 million a year; Schuller...
...organizing committee, which affiliated itself with District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America last spring, submitted union membership cards to the Boston office of the NLRB, signed by "more than 50 per cent" of the 800 Medical Area employees, according to District 65's Medical Area organizer Leslie Sullivan...
...NLRB requires that 30 per cent of all employees sign membership cards...
Inflation, recession and a recent slowing of membership growth have forced "significant cuts in A.C.L.U. operations." But Neier remains optimistic and determined "to press awfully hard just to get what we can this year. We are not likely to have such a good shot for a long, long time." His uncommon confidence is only partly based on past success. Neier believes that one central fact brightens the short-term prospect. Richard Nixon's resignation, says the organization's new annual report, shifts the balance in favor of civil liberties...