Messrs Skelcher and Davis's research, which predated the Nolan reforms, also found evidence that the great and the good were to a large extent self-selecting: even in quangos where ministers have the final say, they found that most new members were chosen by the existing board often by personal recommendation.
If you wanted to discredit the EU, squandering taxpayers' money in its most corrupt new members, Romania and Bulgaria, would be one way to go about it.
The size of that minority is hard to judge because most of its new members are living in families rather than in the much-televised refugee camps.
The EU has just decided to add ten new members, most of them former communist nations.
Opinion within Europe is divided, though most countries would probably prefer no new members, since it is proving expensive enough to assimilate Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
The idea is to enrol in these new accounts most employees who are not already members of a pension plan in which the employer contributes at least 3% of a worker's pay.
At the NATO summit in Madrid this July, we will continue to adapt NATO to the demands of a new era and invite the first, but not the last, new members to join history's most successful alliance.
After admitting ten new countries, most of them considerably poorer than the existing members, Eurocrats are now contemplating without much pleasure the prospect that Romania and Bulgaria will join in 2007.
But most of the members seem to want a fresh leader for the new party.
His book is at its most telling in describing the attitude of Asimco's New York board members and investors, which included some of America's top mutual funds and banks.
These new members will also be among the party's most vulnerable incumbents in 2008, putting pressure on Pelosi to keep her party and its agenda in the mainstream in the 110th Congress.
He believes a more consensual form of government is the most appropriate for the island and hopes all the members of the new house will work together to achieve this, no matter what their views.
Most important of all, final-salary schemes are still open to new members in the public sector.
The New York-based team was downsizing, and the four most junior members, including me, were being let go.
Moreover, many of America's close allies including most NATO members and the entire European Union, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are supporters.
Moreover, many of America's closest allies including most NATO members and the entire European Union, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are supporters.
With a smile that charms the most established collectors as easily as it wins favor with members of the new guard, Cappellazzo brings an entrepreneurial energy to an old-world enterprise.
Even in Britain the new Scottish and Welsh parliaments lack many powers, and most national parliamentary members are ciphers, voting the way their Whips tell them to, lest they be booted out of their party.
Among the ten new members, Poland, by far the biggest, also got the most black marks.
The prospect of admitting ten new countries in 2004, most with large agricultural sectors, filled many current EU members with dread.
Any newcomer figures out pretty quickly that, to succeed in a new group, he or she needs to imitate how things are done by the most successful members of the group.
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Notably, the behaviour of all 15 members contradicted one of the arguments most frequently deployed in support of optimism that the new single currency will lead to economic reform in Western Europe.
Rates of migration westwards from the new members of the EU, in 2004 and since, far exceeded the expectations of most experts and officials.
As a result, the budget agreement may have damaged some of the most important relationships within the EU. For the past decade, close ties between Britain and the new members in central and eastern Europe have been founded on Britain's campaign for their membership.
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Most of its current members--they say there are 100, 000--work in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Boston.
At 0830 GMT sharp on the day we were given access to film the former Gwendraeth Grammar schoolboy prompted his most senior officials in the UK delegation in NATO to brief him on next week's Prague summit when seven new members will be announced.
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