1.   At a time when NAACP chapters nationwide are launching aggressive membership drives, Chavis is giving people reason to hold back.

2.   According to consumer and health industry groups, the lawsuit is apparently the first of its kind involving allegations of misleading advertising by an HMO in a membership drive.

3.   Few organizations have been as successful as the NRA in turning defeats into successful membership drives.

4.   For organized labor, it all adds up to the kind of membership drive that would have been unheard of in previous years.

5.   In a weak moment, I made a pledge to volunteers with the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce, which held a membership drive last week.

6.   Mind you, this is no time for the Benjamin Fan Club to go on a membership drive.

7.   The cachet of an art-opening invitation evidently sells more memberships than a conventional direct-mail membership drive.

8.   The club is in the midst of a membership drive, and invited top corporate executives in town for the Games to tee it up.

9.   The magazine will be published every other month and will be a part of the first membership drive of the Library of Congress.

10.   The other large drain, the documents show, was the membership drive.