The Dubai branch should have 1,000 members this year. We currently have 100 membership inquiries.

We are currently conducting inquiries.

Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

The volume of phone inquiries (to the chamber) is up 46 percent to date this year.

They can't survive for another year the way they're currently operating, ... They've got to get the unions to do it (grant wage concessions.)

It seems perfectly reasonable for the president to want members of the executive branch to be loyal to him and to follow his directions rather than those of the bureaucracies they lead. They will leave their positions when the president leaves. Making a lifetime appointment of a friend to the Supreme Court is a whole different matter.