Word: membership
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...awards appeared to confirm the status of Day-Lewis, Bardem and Christie as front-runners for their respective Oscar awards. Dee was a sentimental favorite among the membership: Ossie Davis, her actor husband of 57 years and another lion for racial equality, died two years ago. But she still has stiff competition from Cate Blanchett, who impersonated Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, and Amy Ryan, multi-award-winner as the rotten mom in Gone Baby Gone...
...improved during the 1970s, my coach, Alexander Nikitin, made charts to track my progress and to set goals for me. A rating above 2500 was grand master; 2600 meant membership in the Top 10; 2700 was world-champion territory. And even above that was Bobby Fischer, at the very top with 2785. I became world champion in 1985, but true to Nikitin's vision, I had an even loftier goal; it took me four full years to surpass Fischer's rating record...
...support from that moderate wing. "It's likely that the group of people that might move away from Huckabee because he's not really campaigning there would probably move to John McCain" - whose views on the environment and human rights align more closely to their own. Still, Romney's membership in the LDS church, once thought to exclude the prospect of evangelicals' support, says Green, has been largely neutralized by the endorsements of such religious leaders as Bob Jones...
...have to wonder who filled out the Academy ballots this year. A good portion of the membership is old enough to call John McCain "Kid." Did the old-timers really go for the ultra-violent No Country and Blood enough to give those two films the most nominations? I know of some octogenarian members who'd let their grandchildren do the voting, under the theory that the job should be done by people who'd actually seen the movies. But this is, by and large, a very Generation Y, double-frappuccino list. The main exceptions are Atonement, an old-fashioned...
...numerically small, is an essential ally to any larger party seeking to form a ruling coalition. Meanwhile, parliamentary elections are not scheduled until January 2011. "The government would probably survive, at least for a while, even with Nikolic as President", Svilanovic explains. "But Serbia's road towards the E.U. membership would certainly become much more complicated at best...