Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some to bring up such grievances. But I believe that silence is acceptance, and I am not prepared to silently accept the status quo at the shantytown. As things stand, it is nothing less than a farce to call the shanties an "open university" and the standards of its membership fair behavior for a community. What the Open University lacks is dedication to its stated principles and a clear view of its objectives. What it requires is a personal commitment to uphold the rights of all and to protect the sacrosanctity of the individual. As the large picture of Archbishop...
...that "concealment (of sources of funding) deprives them (readers and students) of an important element in evaluating research." Quite the contrary, the source of funding is not important in evaluating research. Again it is the work itself that matters. If we should reveal sources of funding, why not also membership in any political organization that has an interest in a particular issue? Or should we make obligatory an ideological autobiography to inform the reader about the axes about to be ground in the guise of scholarship? There are many sources of bias, and funding is by no means always...
That accusation was the strongest yet in a deepening test of wills between Nicaragua's left-wing government, which besides d'Escoto includes two other Catholic priests of Cabinet rank,* and the country's mainline church, in which 85% of Nicaraguan citizens profess membership. In proclaiming a state of emergency that suspended most civil rights last October, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra cited as its principal cause the security threat posed by the U.S.-supported contra forces poised on Nicaragua's borders. But many Nicaraguans believe that the directive was largely aimed at curbing the power of the church. Obando labeled...
...World Jewish Congress had accused Waldheim of hiding his membership in Nazi youth groups before World War II and of concealing his wartime service in a German unit that committed atrocities in the Balkans...
...original charter included a "Hasty Pudding clause" which excluded former members of the Hasty Pudding from membership in the Signet, but that restriction no longer holds...