Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court judge, but he stubbornly refused to resign from the all-white University Club of Memphis. Thurmond and Kennedy worked out a compromise: Brown agreed to stop participating in club activities, and Kennedy and Thurmond cosigned a letter suggesting vaguely that it was "inadvisable" for a judicial nominee to belong to a club that "engages in invidious discrimination...
...support rent control 100 per cent Condominiums don't belong in Cambridge and should be stopped...
...fully utilized will be made available to other people. This arrangement would affect perhaps half of the white-controlled land. Private ownership is a foreign ideology. Our system is that the land is yours for as long as you work it, and the fruits of your labor belong to you. But you don't own it. It's the people's property...
...France, almost all scientific research is directed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, an unwieldy bureaucracy that perpetuates the status quo. Because scientists who belong to the C.N.R.S. have civil service status, they cannot be fired once they have received tenure. Promotions are based on seniority rather than on competition. Says Michel Crozier, a research director at C.N.R.S.: "Once you have a system where procedures as well as promotions come from conforming to the social situation, it means that it is absolutely impossible to get people to cooperate in a bold venture...
...regulation of condominium conversion in the city. Walsh who said in an interview early last summer that God gave each and every American the right to own a condominium, served on the CCC housing committee. "Does that make him a member?" Goetz was asked. "Yes, you have to belong to work on a committee," she responded. Walsh said minutes later that he is not really a member, that he had simply donated "six or seven hours of my time," and that he didn't want to "cause the group any trouble." Days later Goetz explained that Walsh definitely...