Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violation that strikes at the heart of what this University is all about: "By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change." I suspect that we all kind of agree with this, but after Sunday night's meeting, I wonder if we all really understand the implications of this contract. Civil disobedience on the steps of University Hall or anywhere alse is valid--but civil disobedience with the intent to disrupt, to not allow someone else to speak...
...imports of automatic weapons will just force drug dealers to "Kill American." It's a heck of a way to fight the trade deficit, Mr. President. You must take stronger action against guns, or else the violence will continue--that's more important than jeopardizing your life-time membership in the National Rifle Association...
...What the industry needs is a good housecleaning," says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...
...priorities, he emphasizes that he he has no immediate plans to initiate a fund drive. The arboretum currently has an annual operating budget of $2.8 million--70 percent of which comes from its endowment--and depends for the remainder upon both public and private grants, income from education programs, membership fees and donations and revenues from the arboretum shop...
...openness is not just a media phenomenon. The Moscow City Consultation on Family and Marriage recently opened its doors, offering advice to the general public. The Family and Health Association, a voluntary organization, has applied for membership in International Planned Parenthood. Sex education, offered for the first time in just a few schools in the early 1980s, is now supposed to be part of a course on marriage and family life required in all Soviet high schools...