Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of the Israeli Arabs is one of political, social and economic oppression: lack of civil rights, denial of membership in numerous groups and parties, job discrimination and the humiliation of being de facto "second-class citizens" in an ostensibly democratic state. The Arabs have also suffered from the lack of communications channels open to them. General press censorship has managed to keep the Arabs' predicament out of international discussions on human rights...
...This ball is a party for all those who have helped out this year," Mary Rose Maybank, membership officer, said. The Fogg has reason to congratulate itself on its recent accomplishments; the major exhibitions up now are only two of the impressive shows the museum has had this year...
Despite the dangers of life in the Mafia, Mob recruiters find no shortage of eager applicants. To replenish the ranks, depleted during the years of intense federal pressure, Mafia clans across the country reopened their membership books in 1975. Since then scores of new soldiers have signed up. Among them were a number of "greenies," immigrant gunmen from Sicily...
...grew up in slums, where the neighborhood's most visibly successful men were connected with the Mob. Says Chicago Police Commander William Hanhardt: "The man with the big money and a fancy car is a man of prestige. It's something to aim for." There are practical benefits to membership: protection from competition, easy access to skilled lawyers and, if a Mafioso is jailed, financial support for his family...
...British government won't know what has hit it," boasted Andy Tyrie, "supreme commander" of the Ulster Defense Association, Northern Ireland's largest Protestant private army (estimated membership: 5,000 to 10,000). "We've had seven years of violence, and unless we act now, we'll have to put up with the I.R.A. for another seven years...