Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other studies make it clear that much of today's violence is learned in the home, and that child abuse is on the rise. The Fortune Society, a group of ex-convicts, reports that more than half its membership had been severely abused...
...Italian Communist Party is a mass party, as distinguished from some Communist parties based on cadres or militants. We have a membership of nearly 1.7 million. More than half are workers from industry and agriculture, but we also have white-collar members, artisans, intellectuals, doctors, teachers, working women and housewives-the working people hi the broadest sense...
...campaign nevertheless caught fire in its final days, generating as much confusion as clarity. Pro-and anti-Marketeers continued to engage in what the Duke of Edinburgh called a "bout of statisticuffs." Each side drew upon the same meager data to make contradictory claims about the impact of EEC membership upon the British economy. While anti-Europeans argued that a yes vote would be the death knell for British sovereignty, former Prime Minister Edward Heath, a tireless pro-Europe campaigner, hailed the EEC as a peace bond between France and Germany; he appeared to imply that if Britain withdrew, Europe...
...likely negative results of a pull-out (more pressure on the pound, reduced investment by the multinationals, and strained relations with the Continent) were far easier to discern than the positive impact of staying in the EEC. The most persistent economic argument in favor of British membership is based on what is commonly known as the cold-shower gambit: that the stimulus of tariff-free access to the EEC's huge market (nearly 260 million consumers), combined with increased competition from European imports, will help revitalize British industry. The sheer challenge might force Britain to break...
...that were the hallmark of the military junta's first year still continue. True, midnight arrests and unexplained detentions are rarer now than immediately after the coup, and summary shootings have stopped, but terror has become institutionalized. It operates in the hands of DINA, which has an estimated membership of 1,000 and is responsible only to Military Strongman Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. DINA (Dirección de Informaciones Nacional) maintains centers for interrogation where dozens of suspects are brutally tortured as a matter of routine. Says a senior foreign diplomat in Santiago: "With the single exception of detainees released...