Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davis said the Coop, a profit making cooperative society with a membership of 68.41, made $23,885,000 in sales last year...
...Their members are also the most restive; in fact, Maye, a boisterous former Golden Gloves boxer, was recently voted into office partly because his predecessor was not sufficiently militant. Said the Patrolmen's McFeeley: "The two decisions I had to choose from were 1) to sell out my membership and 2) to sell out my membership with my blessing." Neither he nor the other balking union leaders threatened a strike, though the devastation that could be caused by a walkout of police or firemen is apparent. Shanker, who was the most intransigent of all the labor leaders, left...
Toughest Talks. Much will depend on the civic-mindedness of the membership of the unions, which are eventually expected to ratify the agreement, however grudgingly. In the case of the police and firemen, the city may have to add some sweeteners to break down their resistance. Gotbaum, who describes the negotiations as the toughest he has ever witnessed, declared: "The workers are identifying with the city." Banker Rohatyn left the sessions with heightened respect for the men who sat across the table from him and only rarely pounded on it. "What impressed me most about those guys," he said...
...turned to profit. A group of California land developers has founded something called the Scott Meadows Club-712 acres of fertile Sierra wilderness in Northern California's Siskiyou County, all set aside as a secret retreat, once civilization as we know it has disintegrated. For a modest membership fee of $12,500 and annual dues of only $300, members are allocated space in a "security building" to store a year's cache of dehydrated food for each individual in the family; the payment also provides for an ample supply of water, access to electricity and even a place...
...Arab nations and their allies among the underdeveloped countries against trying to expel Israel from the General Assembly this fall. Said he: "We fear for the integrity and survival of the General Assembly itself, and no less for that of the specialized agencies. Those who seek to manipulate U.S. membership by procedural abuse may well inherit an empty shell." Kissinger pointedly declared that "the American people are understandably tired of the inflammatory rhetoric against...