Word: membership
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...hampered its strategic weapons programs. Conversely, it has made propaganda points for China throughout the world, improved its international image, and established an approach, which, if accepted by the other nuclear powers, could enhance China's security and ultimately reduce the enormous cost for China of membership in the exclusive nuclear club...
More than 550 principals from across the country have joined the center at the $120 membership price, and anywhere from 10 to 100 participate in the center's weekly events, which include workshops, discussions and lectures geared toward improving school supervision...
...fact that many nations fail to back us in the U.N. lends strong support to the demand that this country quit the international organization [NATION, March 26]. The indignity of our position in that body makes our continued membership untenable...
...Muslim leader, the reporter violated black solidarity by writing a story that hurt Jackson. Coleman and other black journalists, he said, are "pure chump operatives]" of white editors. Farrakhan's 10,000-member sect, an offshoot of the less militant and racially integrated American Muslim Mission (membership: 100,000), has provided guards for Jackson. At a Nation of Islam rally a little over a month ago, Farrakhan touched off a brouhaha by threatening Jackson critics, especially Jews. "If you harm this brother," he vowed, with Jackson a few feet away, "I warn you in the name of Allah this...
Most alarming of all is the implication in the Pi Eta newsletter that "get[ting] laid" is one of the benefits of paying membership, dues. How respected will a female guest's "no" be in light of this guarantee? Many of the women, especially those from other schools, were not aware that they were to be considered open game at the Pi party. Far beyond issues of free speech, the newsletter presents a real safety issue for women where such a party is represented in a very different fashion to club members and their invited female guests. (Women at other...