Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been held in contempt for not obeying lower-court orders aimed at enhancing minority representation. In the latest phase of the case, the union, aided by the Justice Department, was trying to overturn a lower-court order that it work toward the goal of including 29% nonwhites among its membership -- a figure based on the percentage of nonwhites in the local labor pool. A narrow majority of five Justices upheld the lower court's order. Another Justice, Byron White, agreed that while in principle judges have the power to set hiring goals, in this case the 29% target...
...unemployment rate of 22%. His moderate, centrist economic policy "frightens absolutely no one," as one observer put it. The Socialists have refrained from nationalizing any industries or banks and have even sold some state-owned firms to private interests. Moreover, Spaniards accept the government's promise that modernization and membership in the European Community, which Spain joined in January, will mean future prosperity...
...other, the court upheld a ruling that a union representing sheet metal workers in New York and New Jersey must significantly raise its non-white membership by August...
Cohen, who served as both treasurer andsecretary of the council, agrees with Lakhdhirthat the council's problems stem partly from itshigh membership turnover each year. "Sometimesit's wonderful because you get an infusion of newblood," the Quincy House resident says. "Ifthere's too high a turnover, you lose theexpertise...
...Fund structure revved up after its five-year hiatus, administrative problems led it into a boggling cross-over with other branches of the development office. The same alumni would be asked to cough up money for fair old Harvard by many different callers for many different reasons--for their membership in a class, their hometown, their area of interest, and their children now attending Harvard. "If the annual and major gift [fundraisers] take separate tracks, they arrive on the same doorstep simultaneously," says Reardon...