Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...membership of the 13-member council also appears to have become more progressive. "The most significant change in the council is that one person perceived as conservative is not in this year, and one perceived as progressive is in this year," said Ianella's Press Secretary, Bob Kavin...
...drive to expand interest was spurred by a recent poll of the American Bridge League's membership which found that a majority of its members are 55 years and older, Cole said...
...Grishin for General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo; he has since moved up to full membership.) Andrei Gromyko, then Foreign Minister, carried the day with a nominating speech for Gorbachev during which he coined the now celebrated remark, "This man has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth." Gromyko's speech was surprising in two respects: it appears to have been improvised, and it contained...
...tone for the enterprise by declaring, "The world and all that is in it is our theme." When Bell hired his future son-in-law, a schoolteacher named Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 23, to run the magazine in 1899, the young man catered to snob appeal by soliciting "nominations for membership" instead of subscriptions. The device eventually created the largest nonselective society in the world. Grosvenor's grandson Gil now serves as president of the nonprofit society, which last year showed an estimated $370 million in revenues...
Kennedy's membership in private clubs indicated his sexist bias and that the nominee has ruled against the rights of women, gays, Hispanics, Blacks, and criminal defendants, Dershowitz said. "Judge Kennedy leans heavily against the Bill of Rights," he said...