The award follows criticism from the new president of the 360-year-old society, Sir Robert May, that the organisation had overlooked the internet inventor.
Biggs has worked on ridding the 209-year-old society of its exclusive image, promoting its charity work and has pushed membership numbers over 400, 000 for the first time.
Mike Davies, from the Friends of the Old Pier Society, said he was concerned about the delay.
We haven't seen anything positive happen since 1996 when I formed the Friends of the Old Pier Society.
Soon after the pier was closed to the public, some people from the town formed The Friends of the Old Pier Society with the aim of saving the structure.
German luxury car marker BMW is a classic case of old segmentation where society was neatly compartmentalized into product ranges.
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More important, his father had little time to pass on authority to the 29-year-old in a society that esteems age.
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The NSHSS, based in Atlanta, is an 11-year-old membership honor society founded by Claes Nobel, a member of the Swedish Nobel family (Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel prize, is the best known).
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The welfare state takes care the non-productive forces of society, the old, the sick and the disable.
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Colombian society, one of old-fashioned machismo, may have to come to terms with an increasing trend toward matriarchy.
In many respects, 1920s American society represents the good old days of prosperity and fun to the average Joe (or Joanna) in 2012.
"It is reprehensible that women, the old and the weak in our society should be targeted for alleged sorcery or wrongs that they actually have nothing to do with, " O'Neill said.
And there is also the slippery-slope argument: once assisted suicide is permitted for the terminally ill, vulnerable members of society, such as old people regarded as a nuisance by their families, may all too easily be pushed down it.
The pictures bring to mind the work of Steve Pyke, whose portraits World War I veterans first came to my attention back in the mid-1990s when they were on show at the old headquarters of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath.
Even so eminent a dealer as The Fine Art Society has its former "Old Gold Room" where decades of gilt frames awaited their doom.
But the provision of certain types of cancer investigations and treatments across the UK is variable and some groups of society, like the very old, can miss out.
"When I was a young boy, while my friends were playing with electric trains and teddy bears, I was out collecting decoys, " says Donal O'Brien, 71, former chairman of the National Audubon Society and part of the old guard, with shorebirds and waterfowl in his collection.
Gardner's Maggot Moon is the story of a 15-year-old dyslexic boy living in a dystopian 1950s society whose rulers are intent on winning the space race.
By the time the Red Dog opened again in 1966, this time with Big Brother and the Holding Company, who hadn't yet met Janis Joplin, in residence, the San Francisco scene had already been born, and the sense of community, the innocence, and the feeling of creating a new society, were already a year old.
That night, at its gala dinner, the National Audubon Society presented the 54-year-old with its prestigious Audubon Medal.
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Perhaps, just like the Provisionals' old twin track armalite and ballot box strategy, society has to keep its options open.
Cold weather "is probably the biggest challenge for people who want to run barefoot, " says Tamara Gerken, the 46-year-old founder of the Atlanta-based Barefoot Runners Society.
Was Mr Gardner's speech, attacking the distorted values of American society that forced him to abandon his old job selling useful medical equipment, mistakenly left on the cutting room floor?
Populated by mainstream Americans and Mexican immigrants, by the working class and the retired, this hamlet is a poor outpost with Old West roots where people don't miss society and have often dropped out of it.
As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the 160m-year-old Darwinopterus, which has been dug up in Liaoning Province, catches the flying reptiles in transition between the primitive, long-tailed forms exemplified by Rhamphorhynchus and the advanced, almost tailless creatures typified by Pteranodon.
But it undermined the popularity both of the Concertacion government of President Eduardo Frei, a plodding and uninspired Christian Democrat, and of Mr Lagos, who ran a worthy but old-fashioned campaign, promising voters a fairer society, built gradually through positive discrimination for the disadvantaged, better state education and improved health services.
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In the old, narrow view of capitalism, business contributes to society by making a profit, which supports employment, wages, purchases, investments, and taxes.
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Old money often helps newly arrived money to penetrate high society.
If you talk to women in America, they will tell you that there are still men who have a lot of old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in society.
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