"We're diversifying our risk," she says, describing a recent deal with a major credit card company: sign up for their platinum card and get a free Circles membership.
When Jared L. Loughner was identified as the gunman who shot 19 people here two Saturdays ago, his parents joined a circle whose membership is a curse: the kin of those who have gone on killing sprees.
They had the assurance of people who had spent two comfortable decades on the East Coast: a wide circle of acquaintances, membership at a local golf club, a time-share in Naples, Florida.
Kanter also can envision using Google+ to set up small circles akin to membership clubs in which charitable groups can conduct tailored conversations with donors.
In what is an attempt at a mass raising of female consciousness, the Lean In circles will have membership requirements and a strict format of check-ins, updates, presentations and discussion.
What did he think of the chances of the reformist Guangdong party boss, Wang Yang, who recently made a strong call for political and economic changes, making it onto the standing committee of the Politburo, the all-important inner circle of power whose membership is being fought over at the top?
Dating has a different meaning for each teen; this meaning is created and influenced by her membership in a Circle, and her action and reaction are supported or rejected by that same Circle.
Membership in the circle of believers is not dependent on family or geographic origin (as in the ujigami system) but is based on personal faith.
Isolation from or lack of membership in a Circle contributed to the development of abusive behaviors by enabling negative events.
The study findings support a view that the meaning ascribed to an individual's dating process results from the balance between the individual freedom of the teen and the social norms and rules required by membership in her Circle.
There is — or was — a formal swearing of fealty to Al Qaeda that some people might see as distinguish membership verses first-circle-of-alliance status.
