But he, at least, had the benefit of joining a settled side whose players knew their worth lay in teamwork.
Fifty-six-year-old delegate Liang Wengen, billionaire chairman of the construction equipment maker Sany Group, divulged one little-known benefit of joining the Communist party as a young man.
But even Asiana's chairman, Park Sam Koo, acknowledged that his company would not be able to reap the full benefit of joining the alliance -- which he estimated at $50 million a year in added profit -- if war breaks out.
But the secretary also said that "all members of all militias must see the benefit of joining the new government". She visited Tripoli Medical Center, where she visited the bedsides of four wounded former rebels.
The difference, Durkee responded, is that while membership in a particular eating club might be a peripheral benefit of joining, for example, a singing group or dance troupe, it usually is not the principal reason for joining.
DOUBTS about the benefit of joining Europe -- once a mantra of the region's new democracies -- have crept into politics in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, said Charles Gati, an expert on Central Europe and a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
