11.   Foreign media organizations such as Bloomberg News gained membership only after years of campaigning.

12.   Foreign media organizations such as Bloomberg News gained membership after years of campaigning.

13.   He said an undercover officer, wearing a hidden camera, gained membership by using a bogus note from a doctor, whose name authorities had made up.

14.   Opposes NATO forces launching ground attack from its territory, but flexible on this point if Macedonia gains NATO membership.

15.   The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, are eager to shed their unwanted association with the Soviet Union and gain membership to NATO.

16.   The Czech Republic and Hungary already have gained membership to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

17.   The country is also eager to gain quick membership in NATO and the European Union.

18.   The few who knew about it gained temporary membership and warmed up there for their matches.

19.   The report said Turkey needs to make these changes if it hopes to achieve its goal of gaining membership in the European Union.

20.   Turkey, which desperately wants to gain membership, would like nothing better than to execute the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.