But doing so would also prove a disproportionate financial burden for select members as the numbers above suggest.
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After several years of national realignment, conference names such as the Atlantic 10, Big Ten and Big 12 no longer reflect their numbers of members.
"Even if you cut the number of assembly members down to the numbers they have suggested, you would not make those sorts of (financial) savings, " he said.
The closure of pension schemes to new members started in the 1990s, but increasing numbers of employers have been shutting them to existing members as well.
However, this branch of the armed services was limited in numbers of service members allowed.
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Some 19m families, 90% of Iran's population, have done so, setting up bank accounts to receive monthly payments based on numbers of family members.
At a pinch, Mr Trimble may be able to make up the necessary numbers by asking members of the Alliance Party and the Women's Coalition to redesignate themselves as unionists to give him a working majority.
Most people expect the new ruling alliance, made up of President-elect Kim's National Congress for New Politics, with 77 seats, and the United Liberal Democrats, with 43 seats, to boost their numbers as disillusioned members of the former governing party trickle across the aisle.
To improve his chances, however, Mr Thaksin expanded his party's numbers by recruiting established members of parliament from the provinces.
At last check the community devoted to the creation of open source software for building private and public clouds now numbers more than 6024 members from 84 countries.
The government doesn't have numbers on how many military members are in predicaments similar to Gonzalez's.
According to the Times, the issue of gay marriage is causing Conservative members to leave the party in significant numbers.
At a recent meeting, some members dressed up as nuns and sang numbers from the film Sister Act during a lunch session.
These new numbers show that the 17 members of the eurozone, as a group, have grown by 1.4% in the past 12 months.
It says the situation has been compounded by the "worst access block" many of its members have experienced, with reduced bed numbers and staffing levels.
Members are concerned by a sharp drop in numbers in recent years, against growing demand.
If the military had a troop shortage could shore up its numbers by allowing openly gay service members to serve, it would have done that a long time ago, too.
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She said family members made a point not to change their phone numbers so that law enforcement officials could reach them in case of any developments, even years later.
"How proud you must all be that this new assembly is the first legislative body in Europe, perhaps in the world, to have equal numbers of women and men among its members, " she said.
In a strike to wound Westboro, the activist group Anonymous hacked the names, phone numbers, and social security numbers of numerous people it said are members of Westboro Baptist Church, which is based in Topeka, Kansas.
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On Monday a British Army spokesman said members of the Third Parachute Regiment were heading in large numbers for Basra's old city.
His majority in the 120-seat Congress, secured by a dozen defections arranged by Mr Montesinos, has disappeared: ten members of the ruling alliance have resigned, cutting its numbers to 53.
People now live about 15 years longer than when the first Sun City was built, but most of the surge in numbers by 2010 will come from the 76m members of the baby-boom generation, now moving towards retirement.
Are there specific requirements for new members such as number of years in business or specific revenue numbers?
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They said she knew the winning numbers, which matched the birthdays and ages of members of her family.
However, she said that the leaked list published earlier this week, containing the names, home addresses, phone numbers and professions of some 10, 000 BNP members, showed support for the party was relatively small.
But what appears to have happened is a few rogue agents stayed in the system and managed to hack their way to 77 million PSN members personal information, including birthdays, addresses, emails, phone numbers and possibly credit cards.
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The Scottish Homing Union, which published a manifesto on April 6th aimed at the Scottish elections, thinks that the increase in the numbers of hawks since they became protected is why their members are losing twice as many pigeons as they did a decade ago.
Members are skilful at seeking the camera angles to disguise the paucity of their numbers from the viewing public, but from the Strangers' Gallery, it is an unimpressive sight.
During a similar Harvard seminar this summer, attended by, among others, a board member from Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ), board members from China expressed envy that their American counterparts at least deal with audited numbers.
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