Havelange increased the number of nations at the World Cup, brought smaller, poorer federations into the tent.
The heads of the winter federations will surely be resistant to the idea of letting the most powerful summer federation into their branch of the quadrennial club for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia (it's too late to join for 2010 in Vancouver).
In April, chemicals from herbicide factories in Ufa, the capital of the Bashkir Autonomous Republic, part of the sprawling Russian federation, leaked into the city's water supply.
He also said then that the F.I.G. would not investigate the matter any further, nor would the federation look into the age falsification of Yang Yun of China in 2000.
"I think the cycling federation looked into the abyss last year, after the second consecutive nightmare in the Tour de France, and saw the sponsors leaving and saw that they were looking at extinction if they didn't do something immediately," Pound said yesterday from Paris.
As described in that screencast, TCGA-QL itself is worth a closer look as a DSL that enables and simplifies the migration of SPARQL's query and data federation capabilities into the increasingly browser-based working environment of the bioinformatician.
Mr. Stone used a monthly newsletter to turn the federation into a policy research organization that studied issues like nuclear proliferation, energy and government secrecy.
Mundhir's arrest was followed after 584 by the dissolution of the Ghassanid federation into a number of smaller chiefdoms.
Mr Bouchard has agreed with Mr Charest and the other premiers to turn the Canadian federation into a much more decentralised "social union" of autonomous provinces.
Betty Farrington, one of Martin's successors, turned the women's federation into a powerhouse of zealous crusaders.
