1.   A new association within Federchimica has been formed to try close this gap.

2.   A new association aims to prevent any further attrition of the country schools network, however, unless the closures are backed by local parents.

3.   Across the country, doctors continue to join new associations and unions in record numbers in a push to give themselves more clout when bargaining with HMOs.

4.   But this new association of churches will ordain pastors and have its own constitution, bylaws and statement of faith.

5.   By halftime of the first game, he could already tell this new association would prove lucrative, he said.

6.   Chavez says that, in addition to creating the new association, there will be education of church members on what the full-communion agreement really means.

7.   Community leaders greeted the new association with both skepticism and encouragement.

8.   Even if Oakhurst were to pull out of the Atlanta Baptist Association, the new association would go ahead as planned, Jaggar predicted.

9.   Graff suggested that the creation of the new association was a symptom, not a cure.

10.   Lutheran congregations opposed to the accord will form a new association in March, Chaves said.