1.   And now NATO will expand its membership, to help protect democracy and Western civilization in Europe.

2.   Banks charge that credit unions have illegally expanded their membership to include employees from different companies in a single lending institution.

3.   A federal judge today struck down new federal rules designed to make it easier for credit unions to expand their membership.

4.   But members of credit unions have been gathering support in Congress for a bill that would permit them to expand their memberships anyway.

5.   Harvard lags behind many universities in its willingness to expand membership to non-faculty on important committees.

6.   He expanded the membership of the Gator Clubs to include all fans, not just the wealthy, well-connected ones.

7.   HOUSE SUPPORTS CREDIT UNIONS The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to give credit unions authority to expand their memberships.

8.   In a serious political embarrassment for the Irish government, figures released Friday showed that voters had forcefully rejected a treaty that would expand membership in the European Union.

9.   NATO, at its July meeting in Madrid, likely will move to expand its membership to former Cold War enemies that made up the Soviet bloc.

10.   One of his goals, he said, is to expand NRA membership among women and minorities.