Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Schkolnick was inspired by a recent Supreme Court case against the New York State Club Association. Many rich and famous social clubs, such as the Century Club, are under attack by professional business women who charge that commercial interactions take place among the restricted membership of the clubs, and thus women are prevented from having equal access to their colleagues in the business community...
...mean, let's face the truth, how influential are the final clubs upon a person's career? Does Lisa Schkolnick really think that membership in the Fly Club gives anyone an unfair advantage over the rest of us poor s.o.b.s? Let's examine the facts...
...York law dictates that private clubs will only be subject to public laws concerning gender discrimination if they have more than 400 members, provide a regular meal service, and accept payments from corporations who pay the employee's membership dues. None of these characteristics apply to final clubs. Final clubs exist solely as social institutions, not as business associations involved in commercial activities. Female students really aren't missing out on that much...
...taxes this year, up from $58 million two years ago. Increasing numbers of blacks are working in middle-class professions as lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, engineers, tax consultants and stockbrokers. Black businesses, large and small, are sprouting like mushrooms. The South African Black Taxi Association, for example, has increased its + membership fivefold, to 45,000, since 1983 and last year made an abortive $75 million bid to take over the country's largest white-owned bus company. Last month the black-owned Soweto Investment Trust Co. acquired PepsiCo's independent South African subsidiary for $2 million...
...describe themselves as Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...