Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these folks' gooey white lips, and Conner uses that phrase to describe his beginnings. The way "some kids hang around pool halls," Conner says he hung around the marinas begging rides. At 44 he still likes to refer to sailing as a "good way to hang out." A junior membership was finally extended by the San Diego Yacht Club, and the stout and uncoordinated boy with no real love of the sea began tweaking and fiddling and driving the sport crazy...
...There were no firm obstacles placed in the path of dishonest, pushy, greedy people intent on personal gain from their party membership...
...current chief of staff, Don Regan, who gave Speakes full membership in the inner circle. For the past two years the President's spokesman could and did fill himself with all the information he could absorb, and the tension between him and the White House press corps eased noticeably because the reporters sensed that Speakes had the facts...
Meanwhile, the Hasty Pudding Club is trying to create a de facto tenth club by tightening its requirements for membership and giving honorary membership to each final club president. This was after the Harvard administration--which previously had cut ties with elitist clubs--spent over a million dollars to bail the Pudding out of its financial troubles...
Only recently, the board acquired an executive director, a full membership, and a budget of $68,250. But it has yet to receive office space, and has not defined its own powers or procedures...