1.   The PPP, however, continued to resist government pressure to open its ranks to non-Moslems.

2.   But it is also clear that in the past decade or so the once-exclusive astronaut club has thrown open its ranks to newcomers.

3.   In fairly short order the men who ran the county bar opened their ranks to female lawyers.

4.   The IETF opened its ranks to any computer scientist who wanted to help build the network.

5.   The Hong Kong bank is changing its ways and diversifying its corporate culture, opening its ranks to more Asians and women.

6.   And both NATO and the European Union plan to open their ranks to former Soviet bloc countries, but not to Russia.

7.   And governments realize that far from being utopia, the European Union is a fractious organization with its own difficulties to work out before it can open its ranks.

8.   APEC leaders plan to address the issue of opening their ranks to other Asian rim countries at the APEC summit in the Philippines later this month.

9.   Both NATO and the European Union plan to open their ranks to former Soviet bloc countries, but not to Russia.

10.   In a further break with its Stalinist past, the party of former East German communists is now opening its ranks to anti-communists.