Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some local bosses maintain a sort of closed party shop, stuffing the membership rolls with cronies-or, as party reformers themselves say, even the names of dead people, for whom they pay membership dues. The result has been an entrenched elite, inured to change and the claims to power of young, reformist members. Complains Giovanni Prandini, 36, a Christian Democratic Deputy from Brescia: "The whole party is designed and built for the indefinite preservation of power, not its passage. It is organized in a strict oligarchy that blocks the young, either by compromising or suffocating them...
Melvin Powers, shop steward at Stillman Infirmary, called the University's action a "deliberate attempt to avoid paying unemployment compensation...
Robert Colman, attorney for the union, said yesterday that as yet he cannot be sure if the shop stewards have a case, but added that their position "sounded pretty good...
Sylvia Gallagher, a shop steward, said yesterday many workers will have to refuse the job offer because part-time work does not provide enough money to support their families...
...shop stewards not only criticize the part-time hours, but the scheduling, which Gallagher terms "ludicrous...