Word: membership
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...whose senior members are knights and other nobles, aids victims of war and disaster, issues its own passports and holds diplomatic ties with 100 nations. In 1988 Andrew Bertie, a descendant of Britain's royal Stuarts, became its first British grand master since 1258. The journalist turned teacher upped membership, expanded relief efforts and doubled diplomatic missions...
...Academy membership, which now numbers about 5,800, is by definition insular and aging. It takes a while to build a career, in the movie business like anywhere else, and by the time film folk become members of the Academy, they are usually much older than the people they are making their movies for. The advanced average age of the voters--and the gradual conservatizing of their tastes--is one explanation for the films they give prizes to. They not only wouldn't give an Oscar to, say, a Judd Apatow film but probably haven't seen...
...clear that even this kind of in-person urging will be enough to give Clinton a win in Washington. Obama has raised close to twice as much money as Clinton here, and on Wednesday the state's largest union, the Service Employees International, endorsed him. Its membership is equal in number to the entire turnout of the 2004 Democratic caucuses. On a conference call announcing the endorsement, Washington Rep. Adam Smith, one of Obama's few superdelegates, said he expected Obama to win the state. "We are very confident in getting our people out and having a very strong showing...
...there could be several political and economic reasons behind the new pressure on Ukraine. Russia is unhappy at the restoration to power of Yuschenko's pro-NATO coalition following last year's snap legislative election. It is also irked by Ukraine's imminent accession to World Trade Organization membership, which would improve Kiev's ability to stand up to Russian blackmail by giving it the means to block Russia's own, coveted but much postponed entry into the organization...
BORIS TADIC, President of Serbia, after a tight election victory over nationalist rival Tomislav Nikolic. The E.U. now says it wants to speed up Serbia's progress toward membership...