Word: membership
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...years since, capitalism has transformed the former Soviet vassals. The transition was not always easy. "Shock therapy," slashed budgets and the privatization of state factories and firms stoked corruption and left millions temporarily worse off. But with political stability and reforms (most of them tied to European Union membership), the region went on to enjoy more than a decade of rollicking growth, massive foreign direct investment and steady employment...
...avoid that, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány wants $230 billion in aid for Eastern members hardest hit by the crisis, and fast-track membership to the eurozone, the club of nations that uses Europe's common currency. Without help, Gyurcsány says, there is likely to be social and political unrest and a new economic Iron Curtain across Europe...
...times do change. Just a couple of months ago, Benjamin P. Schwartz '10, Undergraduate Council presidential candidate and everyman extraordinaire was...well...everywhere. Wearing his Crimson Key sweatshirt, wielding his blackberry, assuring students that his membership in the Fly final club was only a small part of what he was about, emphasizing that--hell, why not?--being a member of a final club could help him "bridge divides" among members of the student body. And, of course, there was that Girl Talk concert that he organized. That was fun. Could've been a bit longer, though, don't you think...
...more hierarchical structure, student-faculty committee members would also be given decision-making power, subject to a veto by the Dean that chairs the committee.Changes to the structure of the Finance Committee were also proposed, including a reduction in the committee’s size and a rotating membership drawn from the three proposed advocacy committees.“I don’t see any real drawback to have a smaller committee,” said FiCom chair Sundeep S. Iyer ’11.However, several UC members pointed to the benefits of institutional memory, which would be lost...
...Harvard: The blistering reality that their futures are much brighter than my own in six months. Describe yourself in 3 words: Friend to folly. In 15 minutes you are: Ordering another red-eye coffee from JP Licks. In 15 years you are: Doing a cost analysis of a gym membership versus plastic surgery...