Word: membership
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Membership Count...
...your analysis of the Unitarian Universalist Church's attempt to reconsider its principles and purposes [June 27]: our decline in membership since 1975 has been 9%, not 31% as you reported, a figure that parallels the losses in other Protestant denominations...
...week played host to five Democratic presidential hopefuls. The mood of the delegates at the N.E.A. meeting was defensive. Said outgoing N.E.A. President Willard McGuire: "We've often been accused of speaking to our self-interests, seeking to reduce our work loads or increase our association's membership. That's a lot of malarkey." Shanker might have been warning the N.E.A. not to dig in its heels when he told his own convention, "We are living in dangerous times. Education is under attack...
...guiding U.S. color tastes, has been issuing projections for clothing for more than 60 years and a forecast covering home furnishings and appliances for nearly 30 years. About 700 companies, ranging from textile houses to car manufacturers to bathroom-fixture makers, receive each year the color forecast cards. Membership annually: $320. According to the current women's apparel color selectors, all of them from fashion and textile firms, stores will be stocked 18 to 24 months from now with clothing in mint green, lemon yellow, orange-red and many shades of blue. Says Art Historian Margaret Walch, associate director...
...together by computer fanatics. The most notable of these mininetworks, and a prime source of informed opinions about software, is an international collection of more than 1,200 users called EIES, for Electronic Information Exchange System. Operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, EIES has counted among its membership Author Alvin Toffler and former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson. Brand will tap the expertise of EIES and invite its entire community to recommend favorite pieces of software. Whole Earth staffers will then test the programs, weeding out items that are not first-rate. There will be few negative entries...