Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even those who espouse the party line, while vociferous in their attacks on American foreign policy, were not particularly militant about American society itself. After a heated political argument, a member of the Free German Youth, the mandatory-membership national youth organization in East Germany, turned to me, and said in a voice seeking understanding. "We don't pretend to know what's best for you, but at least no one dies of hunger here any more...
When the delegate assembly voted overwhelmingly for a walkout, Shanker went off to the Garden to seek a strike vote from the membership. "The issues have never been clearer," he declared. "The issue is conditions in the schools. Not only is there no education, but there is danger to the babies and the baby sitters...
...unionism" primarily for staging extensive, punishing boycotts. That opened the door for the Teamsters, who began recruiting hard in 1972. Better organized and well financed, the Teamsters, by stressing their professionalism and reliability, won contracts with about 375 California growers. Before last week's elections, the Teamsters' membership in the California fields had risen to 55,000, while the U.F.W.'s had shrunk to 6,000 and its contracts to twelve...
...N.R.A. remains complacent. Its membership, the association claims, is growing as a result of the publicity. "Hunters are not the slobs and killers that the show made us out to be," maintains an organization official. "Guns of Autumn didn't show people going out and really enjoying the companionship of others, the wonders of being outdoors or how the hunter has restored the wildlife habitat...
Harry P. Gamble, attorney for the NOAC, said Tuesday that the central legal issue in the case is that "the NOAC is a private club which has the right to and does screen applicants for membership through a secret committee...