Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sally Frank, a Princeton grad who has spearheaded the campus-wide anti-sexist drive aimed at making club membership co-ed, last week reached an out-of-court agreement with the Cottage Club. Earlier this month, Cottage decided to admit women for the first time in its 100-year history in order to comply with a ruling of the state's civil rights agency...
Although Frank had sought membership in the Cottage Club as part of the settlement, she decided to postpone that demand until her lawsuits against two other exclusive clubs, the Tiger Inn and the Ivy Club, are settled. Frank has also requested membership in those clubs...
Thus commenced the so-called monster trial, Italy's most ambitious, costly and complex attempt ever to root out the Mafia from its historic home in western Sicily. Everything about the criminal prosecution is gigantic. There are 467 defendants, variously charged with drug trafficking, Mafia membership and 90 murders in an 8,636-page indictment. More than 400 witnesses are scheduled to testify. The alleged Mobsters will be defended by a small army of some 300 lawyers. More than 3,000 extra police have been brought to Sicily to protect those involved in the trial...
...issue on Jan. 29. Palmer Wald, the foundation's counsel, had sent telegrams to two men who sat on both the commission and the foundation board. Wald asked them to leave one of the groups because "the chairman requests there be no crossover of commission and foundation board membership." Both chose to leave the foundation...
...would do so only if the conflict of interest allegation were clearly spelled out. Hodel finally picked up a letter and read aloud its operative paragraph: "I have determined that this matter is not subject to debate . . . I must inform you with regret that your chairmanship of, and membership on, the commission are terminated." He signed the letter and handed it to Iacocca...