Word: membership
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...That's great news should I find the need to recruit members for a support group - with the U.S. population exceeding 300 million (I'm not sure exactly how many are under the age of 12, but 79.7% of Americans are older than 14), that gives me a potential membership of about 100 million for a computer-television addiction group, should the need arise. While we don't know exactly what these online television viewers are doing while watching their favorite shows, Internet usage data tells us that there are great opportunities for television programs to create interactive content...
...Tokyo or Paris, that old-timey expatriate still sips his midday martini at the foreigners' club. But in the rough-and-tumble markets of China and India, a new generation of expats--they prefer "global executives," thank you--haven't yet had a chance to sign up for membership. They're too busy chasing local talent, adapting to a wildly different culture and riding phenomenal growth in markets vital to their companies' futures. And when they get back to the U.S., make no mistake, they'll jump the queue to the corner office...
...Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, researches how cells and their connections in the brain become specialized. At the center, he directs a group of independent scientists as they map neurocircuits and investigate what he calls “the big intellectual question of this century.” Membership honors individual achievement, but some inductees said that their success depended on the help of others. “Our work is always built on that of our peers,” another inductee, Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti said. “Without that network of help...
...this is not about clever marketing. Rather, the treaty should be interpreted as the materialization of an instinct of survival for the continent as a whole. After single-handedly running the globe for centuries, Europe today faces the threat of sinking into oblivion. Through political, economic, and institutional progress, membership to the Union has brought benefits to many countries far beyond the original founders. Where totalitarianism had once consigned whole societies to poverty and underdevelopment, membership to the EU has made Spain and Poland, among others, thrive in the environment of globalization, furthering their relationships with older members like France...
...Europe as a whole has little time for endlessly rotating presidencies, over-bureaucratized central institutions, or, even worse, a half-hearted foreign policy. It needs further coordination with which to augment its power, in order to guarantee the survival of the democratic values now coded in the requirements for membership. Europe needs a constitution, which today means voting for the reform treaty...