Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kurland said that the majority of professors who have written to AAUP support the higher retirement ceiling. He added, however, that he is still unsure of AAUP membership sentiment on the bill because "those who directly benefit from the legislation speak out louder and harder than those who are hurt indirectly...
...Horace Mann. The present school committee won election in 1975 with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...
Coaches look for those who strain and sacrifice and work hard. When they are choosing their teams, they look for the athletes who impress them with both skills and desire. The select few who make that impression get the reward of team membership. Those who are unimpressive get the cold edge...
...Manhattan's venerable New York Yacht Club, where tradition changes as slowly as the membership rolls, they say that if a foreigner ever wins their hallowed trophy, it will be replaced in its case by the losing skipper's head. Robert E. (Ted) Turner III, alias "the Mouth " Terrible Ted" and "Captain Outrageous," is not worrying. Nor are the club's blue-blazered elders. For if winds and weather-and the portents-are right, Terrible Ted this week will begin a successful defense of the America...
Homeowners are not yet ready for open revolt, but growing numbers are howling bloody murder. California's United Organization of Taxpayers claims a membership of more than 70,000 and is pushing to get a petition for property tax reductions on the state ballot. Just under 500,000 signatures are needed; the organization fell only 1,427 short of collecting that many earlier this year. In Washington, D.C., where assessments have jumped 75% in the past four years, furious homeowners forced the city council in July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some...