Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Rondeau points out that 82 percent of those eligible for membership if unionization is successful are women, who are traditionally lower-paid than men. And the union has not backed off its call for a fairer grievance procedure, higher pay, a dental plan, comprehensive health insurance and daycare...
Fraternities at the University of Massachusetts have stepped up their academic standards in an attempt to increase membership...
According to Mike Schardein, director of the Greek Affairs Office at UMass, the academic standards were imposed in hope that "fraternity membership would increase by 100 percent in the next three years." Five percent of the school's students now reside in the 22 fraternities at UMass...
...tournament began at 8:30a.m., when the eventual runner-up Rangers defeated the G-entry team whose membership lead like part of the varsity men's team, by a score...
Another sign that the nation's revolutionary fervor may be ebbing is that the Islamic Guards, Khomeini's elite military organization, are actively conscripting new members. Until recently, the Guards screened all applicants scrupulously to make sure that no opponents of the regime were admitted to membership. Now, however, the Guards are competing with the army for recruits. In some cases, the Guards have taken young draftees who were awaiting induction into the army, creating yet another area of friction between the Guards and the armed forces...