Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made possible such prosperity not just by its defense alliance with Taiwan but by sponsoring Taiwan's membership in such key international financial organizations as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Now Taiwan's eligibility for loans from these organizations will come into question. Particularly endangered is the island's most-favored-nation status. Indeed the whole business climate of the island may be its most vulnerable element once the American defense umbrella is removed...
...Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely young "slave girls." Just as the successful bidders claimed their prizes, however, hotel employees dressed as commandos leaped from the balconies to rescue the maidens...
Organizationally, the labor movement is hampered by the fact that its membership consists mainly of working people with a low level of poltical awareness. Leadership cannot pursue policies that membership does not understand and towards which workers would not be sympathetic. But labor leaders have also not followed the most progressive possible strategy within the limits defined by organizational considerations. On the contrary, leadership's ideological preference for elite politics and reform through state bureaucracy has even further reduced labor's political power...
Maguire said yesterday next year's board plans to restructure the club, possibly by limiting gen4eral membership and expanding the board to include the more active students involved in drama. HRDC membership is currently open to any undergraduate involved in theater at Harvard...
Maguire said she regretted restricting membership, but added it was necessary because "the HRDC will be the guiding force at the Loeb next year and needs to be a tight group...