As of March 3, 2006, there were only six DALUs remaining in the AFL-CIO, but that number may increase.

Beginning in the early 1970s, the AFL-CIO adopted an official policy encouraging DALUs to merge with national affiliates.

Most DALUs have fewer than 1000 members and represent workers in only one workplace.

At one time DALUs were called ' federal labor unions ,' and some trade unionists still refer to them as such.

' The origin of the numbering system is obscure ; that one DALU is called ' Local 2002 ' does not indicate the existence of 2001 other DALUs, either currently or historically.

The AFL constitution permitted the formation of DALUs, or federal unions.

Rather than admit failure, however, in 1933 the AFL proposed to use DALUs to organize workers on an industrial basis.

The AFL did not promise to allow DALUs to maintain a separate identity indefinitely.

Although the AFL ( and the AFL-CIO ) continued to charter DALUs, it did so infrequently and in extremely small numbers.

After the election of John Sweeney ( labor leader ) as president of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the AFL-CIO executive council adopted a policy preventing the charter of new DALUs.

The disaffiliation of several major unions in 2005 led the AFL-CIO to reconsider the use of DALUs.

Sweeney directly equated solidarity charters to DALUs.

So, because he had received less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should receive the few hundred dollars that remained.

With Hawthorne's death, Alcott worried that few of the Concord notables remained.

Within a few years, Emperor Manuel died as well, and Saladin remained the only strong leader in the east.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

After further political consolidation, seven prominent states remained by the end of 5th century BC, and the years in which these few states battled each other are known as the Warring States Period.

He sent fifty monks of his order to introduce it, who remained, however, for only a few months.

Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.

The rate of state formation leveled off in the 1980s, at which point few colonies remained.

Casablanca remained a modestly sized port, with a population reaching around 12, 000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French colonialists in the town, at first administrators within a sovereign sultanate, in 1906.

While Heman remained in Salisbury, where he ran a general store until his death in 1778, Ethan's movements over the next few years are poorly documented.

Practical applications for electricity however remained few, and it would not be until the late nineteenth century that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use.

Indeed, according to various historical accounts, after that point few mathematicians tackled the issues and the work of those who did remained obscured largely because of resistance to such unfamiliar emerging concepts, which were sometimes referred to as mathematical " monsters ".

During the next few years, his financial situation remained bad.

His script was widely different from the final film, the few parts that remained were Erika's death, Biollante's creation, a psychic girl, and for the most part, the ending.

The few Spaniards who remained in Gibraltar in August 1704 were augmented by others who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, possibly some two hundred in all, mostly Catalans.

A few of Rossini's operas remained popular throughout his lifetime and continuously since his demise ; others were resurrected from semi-obscurity in the last half of the 20th century, during the so-called " bel canto revival.

Most bright galaxies have remained fundamentally unchanged for the last few billion years, and the net rate of star formation probably also peaked approximately ten billion years ago.

A few Hittite centres remained in northern Syria, along with some Phoenician ports in Canaan that escaped destruction and developed into great commercial powers.

The Silures, Ordovices and Deceangli remained implacably opposed to the invaders and for the first few decades were the focus of Roman military attention, despite occasional minor revolts among Roman allies like the Brigantes and the Iceni.

Despite these changes the highlands remained very poor and traditional, with few connections to the uplift of the Scottish Enlightenment and little role in the Industrial Revolution.

The Bradford and Weston-super-Mare temples remained loyal to him, but their numbers were few.

Once widely practised by many miners across the moor, by the early 1900s only a few tinners remained, and mining had almost completely ceased twenty years later.

The conquest of the north was soon completed, while a few pockets of resistance remained.

Napoleon had won a decisive victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, and as a consequence Europe remained mostly at peace for the next few years.

It is one of only a few of Whale's films that has remained in the public eye and is regarded as a classic of the horror genre.

There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

There remained only the delicate task of maneuvering the laws through the labyrinth of Palace politics and making a small number of policy decisions.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

A small number of pockets of land on the right-hand side of the river Dragonja in Istria have remained under Croatian jurisdiction after the river was re-routed after the Second World War.

Digamma ( or wau, uppercase, lowercase ; as a numeral: stigma, ϛ ) ( compare sigma ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound and later remained in use only as a symbol for the number " 6 ".

The fish community of this lake has remained stable over a long period until a number of introduced species | introductions in the 1970s restructured its food web.

The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

The number has varied slightly but remained roughly stable since then, with 759 clubs participating in 2010 – 11, a record 763 in 2011-12 and 758 for 2012-13.

The inflectional categories of the Greek verb have likewise remained largely the same over the course of the language's history, though with significant changes in the number of distinctions within each category and their morphological expression.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

Although they remained married until Holt's death in 1967, Zara's memoirs confirmed longstanding rumours that Holt had a number of extramarital affairs.

These laws decreased the number of child labourers ; however, child labour remained in Europe and the United States up to the 20th century.

This number remained fixed for a little over 200 years until the division of some counties into smaller entities for judicial purposes ( 1836 ), initially, followed by complete division in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The number of working days lost in the country due to strikes rose sharply to more than 25, 000, 000 in 1984, though most of these were miners on strike, and from then on the number of working days lost in Britain due to strikes remained in the low millions.

A very serious narcotic habit can develop in a matter of weeks, whereas iatrogenic morphine addiction rates have, according to a number of studies, remained nearly constant at one case in 150 to 200 for at least two centuries.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

Although the number of cellular phones has grown enormously, surpassing that for standard ( i. e., landline ) telephones in 2003, the overall ratio of phones per capita has nonetheless remained much smaller than it is for the developed countries.

Since the destruction of the Second Temple, and ( therefore ) the cessation of the daily and seasonal temple ceremonies and sacrifices, Kohanim in traditional Judaism ( Orthodox Judaism and to some extent, Conservative Judaism ) continue to perform a number of priestly ceremonies and roles such as the Pidyon HaBen ( redemption of a first-born son ) ceremony and the Priestly Blessing, and have remained subject, particularly in Orthodox Judaism, to a number of restrictions, such as restrictions on certain marriages and ritual purity ( see Kohanic disqualifications ).

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

Nonetheless, a small number of farms remained.