31.   NATO began the process of expanding its membership Thursday, briefing two dozen potential candidates on what it will take to join the club.

32.   NATO is seeking to expand its membership eastward and is preparing to enforce a Bosnia peace accord.

33.   NATO began the process of expanding its membership Thursday, briefing about two dozen potential candidates on what it will take to join the club.

34.   The conference, an autonomous body, also moved to expand its membership.

35.   The measure would expand membership in the Health Plan by paring back services for some enrollees and imposing higher patient costs through co-payments.

36.   The United States and a few other APEC members fear that expanding the membership too rapidly will dilute the drive to abolish barriers.

37.   They could hardly have come at a worse time for the alliance that seeks to expand its membership eastward and prepares to enforce a Bosnia peace accord.

38.   They could hardly have come at a worse time for the NATO alliance that seeks to expand its membership eastward and prepares to enforce a Bosnia peace accord.

39.   Three months ago the European Union launched a yearlong conference to rewrite the principal EU treaty in light of plans to expand membership to central and eastern European countries.

40.   However, there has been pressure to expand membership of this exclusive club with the creation of new seats, in particular for Germany and Japan.