Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause for satisfaction that the Western European governments and electorates have held firm, there is also cause for great concern, especially concerning the West German Social Democrats, who have voiced a resounding no to the NATO deployments. Although the SPD has voiced its approval of continued West German membership in NATO, left-wing nationalism and neutralism is very fashionable in the now dominant wing of the party led by former Chancellor Willy Brandt and the SPD can indulge in irresponsibility while in opposition, but economic recovery may not come soon to West Germany, thus opening the way for a return...
...conference will include training sessions, discussion of resolutions which will be voted on by the membership, and revision of the League's "policy review" on the relationship between cities and the federal government...
...Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...
Another club which faded away is the 78 Mt. Auburn St. based Kex, founded in 1924 and not heard from after 1932. The officers of 1930-31 reported solvency and a small membership, adding that "The pessimism as to the inevitable effect of the House plan seems to be quite unjustified for this year at least..." and mentioned the possibility of a merger with a fraternity, Alpha Sigma...
...geographic diversity. The less affluent New Haven had no equivalent of the Boston Brahmin and hence was less status conscious. It was hardly a Jacksonian democracy, but it was more open than Harvard. Sociologist David Riesman (Harvard '33) describes the differences during his undergraduate days, writing that at Yale, membership in secret societies was based on personal characteristics, but "at Harvard, it was ascribed not achieved. No matter how much of a lout you were you could get in a final club [with connections]. There wasn't anything you could do by effort...