1.   But professional baseball offers no promise of lifetime membership.

2.   Former President George Bush last week resigned his lifetime NRA membership because of the letter and President Clinton has scolded the group for it.

3.   Her mother-in-law gave her a lifetime membership to Hadassah.

4.   Mrs. Lipton herself joined only when her mother-in-law gave her a lifetime membership.

5.   That might explain why Cianci went so far in his battle with the exclusive University Club, from whom he is accused of extorting a free lifetime membership.

6.   The NRA has been on the defensive since former President George Bush, earlier his month, quit his lifetime NRA membership in disgust over the brochure.

7.   There were several accounts of an obscenity-laced Cianci tirade against the University Club, from which he allegedly extorted a free, lifetime membership.

8.   Travelers should consider carefully whether to buy lifetime memberships in clubs.

9.   Former President Bush resigned his lifetime membership soon afterward.

10.   He also received an honorary lifetime membership from the Directors Guild of America.