Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of the new political disorder has been the reversal of the historic relationship between the Senate and the House of Representatives. By giving Senators six-year terms, the founding fathers hoped for a senior body of thoughtful, experienced and judicious men who would temper the boisterous House, where membership is subject to total change every two years. Now the opposite is true. The House has become a safe haven for incumbents; 95% of those who sought re-election won this year...
...This time we're not screwing anything up," Stanton said during her introductory speech at the meeting last night. The club checked each voter's name against a membership list this time to insure the validity of the results, she added...
...African rule. If you go right down from Kenya, through Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa, you can spot pretty well those black organizations which are saying the things that will have mass support. It's not always those who have the largest numbers on their membership lists at the moment. In South Africa it would be the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), and the Black People's Convention...
...person complained, apparently because of a postscript in which Smith offered membership forms for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. What he did was illegal, and superiors warned that he could be fined $300. Smith has offered to pay $60 in postage to end the matter. Meanwhile, he is obeying the law and making sure that others do so too: he is removing all papers that other people, including politicians, place in mailboxes without postage...
...support programs at universities ranging from Georgetown to Stanford, were trying to gain undue influence in the U.S. Nonetheless, some of the resistance to the U.S.C. center seemed more emotional than anything else. Jewish Businessman Allen Ziegler, a U.S.C. alumnus,, announced that he had sent back his lifetime membership card in the Alumni Association in protest. Said Ziegler: "I wonder where they're going to put the mosque...