Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into Tres Vidas and borrowed millions more, the resort continued to sink deeper into the red. In 1971 Braniff International Corp. took over managerial control from the man who was once its chairman and began doing away with his members-only notion. "Tres Vidas," announced Braniff, "is a private-membership country club. Guests are currently being accepted on a get-acquainted basis ..." With visions of the hoi polloi overrunning their dream resort, remaining members began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff had converted Post's dream into an open resort, and was making...
...Cambridge, a first-year Harvard law student who graduated from Princton told The Crimson, thought that Princton "places its chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, that she places a low rank upon things of the mind, that her outlook is immature and provincial, that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...more profitable industries) refrain from taking out as much as they otherwise could in the interest of solidarity with their poorer union comrades. This requirement gave managers and stockholders higher profits with higher salaries and more dividends in direct contradiction to the goal of equality. Finally, since L.O.'s membership is mainly blue collar, it could do nothing to control the wages of the growing number of white-collar workers organized in separate labor confederations (mainly, the Central Organization of Salaried Employees...
Surely, then, we would argue, if the behavior of our forefathers was not impeccable, at least they were more religious than we. Not necessarily. For whatever that means, church membership in the 1770s was actually much lower than it is today -only 6% or 8% of the population by most estimates. The religious Great Awakening of the middle third of the century had given way to a big sleep, and pastors looking for Congregationalists or Presbyterians complained that they found only "nothingarians" or "anythingarians." "The Revolutionary era was a period of decline for American Christianity as a whole," writes Yale...
...Hoffa understood that he couldn't make it in the world by working on an oil rig like his father. With no education and no wealthy background he had to steal money from somebody--and first he stole it from the bosses, then fleeced his membership while getting them huge wage hikes (he denies this in his book). He had little conception of working people rising together; he had fierce loyalty to his men, but Hoffa never believed in such a mysterious thing as class solidarity...