Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...removes the main obstacle to reunification. Some well-stacked bricks with electrified wire (and a few well-placed sharpshooters) doesn't constitute a wide enough chasm to keep apart the two halves of a once-mighty European nation. The gulf which separated the Germanies--and still separates them--is membership in their respective economic and military alliances, treaties more permanent than a stack of bricks...
...once again opponents of the nine all-male final clubs must wait a little longer before their most recent challenge to the group's membership practices is answered...
...newspaper Bild said Kohl's plan includessetting up joint German-German committees to"coordinate cooperation" in economic matters,crime-prevention, ecology and other domesticareas, while "leaving membership to NATO and theWarsaw Pact untouched...
...most Western diplomats believe the Communists, even transformed from top to bottom, probably would not win more than 10% of the popular vote if elections were really free. The party has lost an estimated 600,000 of its 2.5 million members in recent months. By some accounts, half the membership would not even vote Communist...
...gastronomical theory can explain the enduring appeal of the Thanksgiving dinner. The traditional menu is largely a 19th-century re-creation of Pilgrim and Indian fare, and none of these groups normally claim membership in the world's great culinary traditions. But miraculously the meal remains a monument to pre-microwave American cooking. Not even McDonald's has had the audacity to create McTurkey, nor does Domino's deliver cranberry pizza. So too are the food faddists outflanked, as sun-dried tomatoes, imported chevre and oat-bran anything give way to overstuffed lassitude...