Word: membership
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Such clucking is in character with the scrupulous attention the Soviet government pays to the young. Soviet parents are fond of saying, "Our children are our future." From age seven, when first grade begins, the children are enrolled in Leninist youth groups, which can lead eventually to party membership. After showing the proper spirit as "Little Octobrists" (named for the month in which the Russian Revolution took place), boys and girls graduate to the "Young Pioneers" at the age of nine. Their training in athletics, fitness and handicrafts can soon turn political. At the Black Sea camp of Artek last...
First-year grades should not count at all in the selection of Law Review editors Membership on the review is too prestigious--in terms of job opportunities and relations with faculty members--to be based on something so inappropriate as first-year marks...
...policy won't be much better. It has the beneficial side effect of forcing people to actively try out for the Review, rather than having membership bestowed upon them, since everyone has to take part in the writing competition. But grades still count, under a mysterious formula that the Law Review is keeping under wraps...
...Hampshire is a less unionized state. But even there, the state AFL-CIO'S membership list of 37,000 is a fertile field for harvesting Mondale votes. Last month some 60 union volunteers kept eleven phone banks manned throughout the state, soliciting help for the Minnesotan. AFL-CIO Field Representative Charlie Stott estimates that 15,000 of the roughly 110,000 people expected to vote in New Hampshire will be members of the AFL-CIO. This kind of union activity can be duplicated in almost any state where Mondale needs the labor push. Glenn's aides said last...
...Baha'is have no such freedom. The U.S. human rights report says that the government has established a legal basis to "move against all Baha'is if it chooses to do so." In Wilmette, Ill., headquarters for the faith's 100,000-member U.S. branch (worldwide membership: 3 million), a spokesman fears that "unless things change, Baha'is in Iran are going to be annihilated...