Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sherman Holcombe cauliflower controversy, the Harvard administration has again seized on a minor dispute--this time the question of where on the plate Alan Balsam should put hamburgers--as a pretext for purging the kitchen workers of their leaders and intimidating the rest of the local's membership. In addition to the suspensions, Harvard has docked all the workers who walked out in solidarity with Balsam two hours' pay and let fly a barrage of threats aimed at frightening workers into submission...
...Moonies. "I just wonder why we can't get more motivation like the Moon motivation in our own churches," says the Rev. Dan Potter, director of the Council of Churches of the City of New York, which nevertheless has refused to admit the Unification Church to its membership. Adds Potter: "We are all a collection of groups grown out of the insights of so-called heretics." Religious orders have long sequestered their initiates from the world, and ceaseless work can be seen as beneficial...
...Today membership in an ethnic group is growing more important than American identity. Unless present fed eral policies are modified, Glazer fore casts a continuing rise in ethnic consciousness and combativeness. In short, Glazer concludes that liberal policy makers, as they seek to knit an inte grated society together, are unraveling it as they...
...large number of people some would be unethical or dishonest. But to label all salesmen unethical on that basis makes no more sense than to label the entire medical, legal, scientific, academic, and journalistic professions corrupt because of the corrupt actions of a small fraction of their total membership...
...Membership in the Inner Circle of Advocates does not come easy, but this elite society, formed in 1972, is growing fast. To qualify, an attorney has to win a jury verdict of $1 million or more on behalf of a victim in a personal injury case. So far, 72 lawyers have been invited to join the organization. In the past month alone, there were three remarkable cases that merited Inner Circle recognition and will spur a growing concern about huge awards...