Word: membership
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...successful patent lawyer and inventor, Rines has been engaged in scientific work ever since he and a few wealthy friends founded an organization called the Academy of Applied Sciences in 1963. The institution, which has no connection with any university or recognized research organization, is vague about its membership and seems to have financed little in the way of study on its own. An Academy member, Peter Byrne, has searched for the legendary Bigfoot. A New York lawyer has acquired an animal that some feel may even be Bigfoot. Michael Miller bought the creature, described as resembling "a bald chimpanzee...
They were less interested in Zayad's Marxist politics than his usefulness as a symbol of protest against years of abuse by local leaders. Zayad prudently soft-pedaled his membership in Rakah, the small Moscow-leaning Israeli Communist party that holds four of the Knesset's 120 seats. "I did not run as a representative of Rakah," he insists. "I am a Nazarene...
...oppressive society in which man's spirit is made captive to the civil order. The logic of their position leads them to break down the exclusive nature of the church and its right to decide who can be a member. Possibly quotas should be applied to church membership? The church must be a responsible member of its host society, but not at the sacrifice of her integrity and deposit of truth...
...population. The royal pardon, however, will apply to only about half the estimated 2,000 prisoners who are serving sentences or awaiting trial for political offenses. Among those the decree explicitly excluded were 250 or so prisoners who have been charged with crimes of terrorism, propagandizing for terrorism or membership in Communist and separatist groups condemned under the draconian legislation approved last July by the Franco regime. The death penalty will not be imposed upon anyone convicted before Juan Carlos' accession, but that was the only concession that the King made to opposition demands for immediate release...
...financial troubles. The paper was warning about runaway pension costs, one of the main factors in the present crisis, as long as four years ago, when a series of News stories persuaded the New York legislature to put a freeze on future increases in state pension-plan membership. In a recent issue of [Morel the journalism review, Financial Commentator Louis Rukeyser rated the News' editorials on the city's financial plight as more cogent and less partisan than those of the Times and the Post, which he felt too often got bogged down in anti-banker diatribes. Says...