The largest member of the family in question is called Baptistina, and is some 40km (25 miles) across.
United is the largest member and provides the others with hundreds of connections to U.S. cities they couldn't hope to serve on their own.
And each deal tends to enshrine the preferences of its largest member, making it harder to bring regional blocks together within a cohesive set of global trade rules.
However, Russia has also made a great deal of under-appreciated progress in addressing these problems to that point that its natural population change is noticeably better than the largest member of the European Union.
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In October 2006 Eurex sold 65% of its American experiment to Man Group, parent to cme's largest executing and clearing member.
On Friday, Germany, the largest and most influential member of the euro zone, poured a degree of cold water on the hopes for more aggressive action by the ECB.
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The recommendations are to be disseminated among the institutions and organizations, including the Ministries of Culture and largest museums of CIS Member States, with the aim to foster active participation of museums in the preventive conservation with consideration of the international best experience in this field.
That makes the 1.3 million-member UCC the largest mainline church to approve same-sex marriage.
Australia is our largest non-NATO coalition member making an extraordinary contribution day in and day out.
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Now it has the influence of Steve Jobs as a Disney board member and the largest shareholder.
Proportionately it is the largest problem in any European member state.
In 1996, according to Congressional Quarterly, Traficant received the largest vote of any House member in the country, getting more than 218, 000 votes and facing no Republican opponent.
Russia is the world's largest economy that still not a member state.
Hey I went from being a staff member in the second largest firm in Worcester, Mass to being a partner in the second largest firm in New England without ever looking for a job.
G7, supposedly the world's main economic club, to discuss currencies when China, which holds the largest official reserves, is not a member.
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Last week's election pitched incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, a member of Kenya's largest Kikuyu tribe, against opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Luo tribe.
Forbes 400 member Charles Johnson is now the largest shareholder of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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His preaching, his ministry, and the 50-member strong gospel choir make it the largest church in the city.
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The largest invertebrate on the planet, it is a member of the class Cephalopoda, which includes octopus, nautilus, and extinct ammonite species.
Air Berlin, Germany's second largest carrier after Lufthansa, has only been a member of Oneworld since March last year and if it were ever to leave, the alliance wouldn't let it go quietly.
And Libya was among the African Union's largest contributors, paying dues for some of the 54 member nations.
The largest contributor was Bob Luddy, who is a board member at the John Locke Foundation and at the Civitas Institute.
New York (CNN) -- Seventeen people were arrested in Philadelphia in a multimillion dollar drug bust, with the help of a member of one of the world's largest drug cartels, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
The idea hasn't settled well with the 40, 000-member Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers union.
Furthermore, 60% of the largest companies in the sector have appointed at least Audit Committee member who has BOTH financial expertise AND significant experience in real estate.
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Ecuador, a member of the Bolivarian Alliance, is one of the largest recipients of Chinese investment, particularly in the area of mining and oil.
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The tag is actually the brainchild of the media team at the Communications Workers of America, the largest communications and media sector union in the United States with a member of more than half a million members.
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One example: Aubrey McClendon, Forbes 400 member and chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, the second-largest independent producer of natural gas in the country.
Indonesia is not only regionally important, but as a member of the G20, as one of the world's largest democracies, as one of the world's largest Islamic nations, it has enormous influence and really is, I think, a potential model for the kind of development strategies, democracy strategies, as well as interfaith strategies that are going to be so important moving forward.
Lazard ( NYSE: LAZ) is a member of the Russell 3000, giving it special status as one of the largest 3000 companies on the U.S. stock markets.
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