Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet a fairly decent sort of man." No less a student of American mores than Art Buchwald (a tennis player noted for his murderous lob) recently observed that in Washington, at least, the latest problem for divorce lawyers is which spouse will get custody of the tennis membership. "Ninety percent of the men who play tennis with women," says Designer Oleg Cassini, who has lately branched out into alluring multicolored outfits for tennis players, "do so with some hope of sexual reward." As a tennis player, Cassini should know better. But these days who will blame him for hustling...
...also gave countries like Cuba* an opportunity to define neutralism in a distinctly pugnacious way. "Simple noncommitment to military blocs," said Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez of Cuba, should not qualify a country for membership among the nonaligned. Rodriguez pushed instead for the idea of "international solidarity" as "a permanent duty of the peoples committed to revolution." By that he meant such things as Cuban military intervention in Angola, a type of international solidarity that Rodriguez said would "not be interrupted...
Chemical will offer brokerage on an "unbundled" basis, meaning that extra fees will be charged for safekeeping of stock certificates and research-services that brokers offer "free" as part of their commission charges. In addition, Chemical's customers would pay $30 or $35 annually as a kind of membership fee to trade stocks through the bank...
...from modest economic circumstances. What you see is a group like an Establishment men's service club. On the Democratic side you have the whole country represented. Because of this, the Democratic Party has a tolerance for differences, and that is its real strength." Because of its limited membership, he adds, the G.O.P. "fails to understand the problems faced by the rest of the country...
...Persons convicted of "crimes of rebellion or sedition" under Spain's rigid military code. This clause will free, among others, nine officers convicted in March of membership in the illegal Military Democratic Union, a moderate group dedicated to democracy and the reform of the military establishment...