Such outside revenues, Keener said, offset the need to raise membership fees.
Nowhere has the surge in membership been as great as in Port Washington, where the fire department reports 48 recruits since Sept. 11, raising membership to 300.
After the Seattle assembly, he warned, the organization would begin a new round of global trade liberalization, raising membership hurdles higher.
Under his leadership, the NRA became overtly political, endorsing for the first time a presidential candidate (Ronald Reagan in 1980), advertising to raise membership and revenues, and spending the money on building a network of congressmen who opposed gun control.
But most of the job of raising membership falls to the on-air hosts -- people like Michael Bourne, 57, the late-afternoon D.J. Burly and shaggy-bearded, Mr. Bourne wears a St . LouisCardinals baseball cap and has a Ph.D. in dramatic arts from Indiana University.
In wealthy or densely-populated areas, for instance, rent can be very expensive, which can require you to raise membership prices to pay for it.
Despite the drop in visitors, online-dating industry revenues have grown as companies raised monthly membership fees and membership lengths increase.
That sentiment is echoed by the Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City, which has seen a rise in attendance and membership, despite raising family membership to $125 from $85 on Oct. 1, said Suzanne LeBlanc, executive director.
Concerns have been raised about membership recruitment which need to be investigated.
Britain's National Trust, a heritage organisation, raised its membership from 250,000 in 1971 to 3.7m now.Political scientists disagree over the causes of the parties' decline.
