Word: membership
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Though the student governments at these three schools vary in function, a core of powers, practices and problems is common to all. In each school, students have been permitted a foot in the door to power, by membership on advisory and policy-making bodies. In each, students are slowed by insufficient information and a lack of genuine authority to set policy. In each case, success in opening the door wider depends on students' ability to convince administrators that they truly represent student opinion, and to lobby administrators with polls, demonstrations and facts...
...more serious incident, on Jan. 9, 1973, the Mounties broke into a Parti Québ&3233;cois office in Montreal. According to federal Solicitor General Francis Fox, the Mounties lifted computer tapes containing the P.Q.'s membership list and financial records and copied the documents before surreptitiously returning them. It seemed a pointless burglary, since the Mounties apparently learned nothing that they could not have found out as easily by perfectly legal means. What enraged the federal opposition parties, and dismayed Trudeau's Liberals, was not simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that...
...given the required two-year notice of its intention to withdraw but the fact that it actually did so shocked even some Western diplomats. The primary U.S. condition for rejoining is that the I.L.O. get off its political soapbox, but the Administration left specific terms for renewed membership undefined. Labor Secretary F. Ray Marshall said that the U.S. would return "when the I.L.O. is again true to its proper principles"-a statement that the Administration could interpret just about any way it wants...
Liberal (defined in Cambridge politics as supporting the Cambridge Convention's platform) membership of the council has fluctuated since '71, but the laws have still stayed on the books. Critics of the law claim it discourages housing construction and maintenance by making real estate an unprofitable business. Though landlords have not been declaring bankruptcy because of rent ceilings, a changed housing market has made their situation less desirable. Since the Federal Reserve Board tightened the money supply and drove up the lending rates in the early '70s, the homebuilding industry in Massachusetts has shriveled with only recent indications that...
...Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many as 10 million of those new recruits are suspected of being Gang of Four sympathizers...