Word: memberships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subsidiary that has become Japan's biggest golf-course operator by acquiring more than 60 clubs. About half are operating; the rest should emerge from bankruptcy early next year. During Japan's late-1980s bubble, schacho (CEOs) flooded the links, paying up to $1 million for a membership. Today a membership costs about $22,500. In the past three years nearly 200 of Japan's 2,400 golf courses have declared bankruptcy, according to Teikoku Databank, a credit-research agency. "Goldman is buying these distressed properties at a great discount," says Joel Gomberg, an analyst at William Blair & Co. "There...
Assistant Dean of the College John T. O’Keefe, who serves as secretary of the Ad Board, said discussion of student membership on the body “comes up every year or two,” but that this is the first time in his three and a half years on the board that the possibility has advanced beyond the discussion stage...
...FAIR’s membership is anonymous in order to protect its constituents from government retribution, although the New York University School of Law has publicly identified itself as a member...
...precious words, ‘He’s on the right track!’ Uttered perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass, and confers glory and honor and happiness and membership in the herd. For these gauds many a man will dump his life-long principles into the street, and his conscience along with them. We have seen it happen. In some millions of instances...
...ever such a gaud took material form, then that gaud is a new Red Sox baseball cap. Yes, standing well with one’s friends is pleasant; yes, there is a satisfying sense of community wherever a television is tuned to a Red Sox game. But is membership in that herd really pleasant enough to make us forsake life-long (and in many instances, generations-long) allegiances to other (and in many instances, better) baseball teams? College should be about acquiring new allegiances, and also about examining old ones. It should never be about cheering...