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  "year": 1996,
  "month": "November",
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  "headline": "We've just made it easier to become an IRE member",
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  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "IRE has simplified its membership process by offering online registration through their secure web server and providing downloadable membership forms in Adobe Acrobat format for fax submission.",
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  "full_text": "We've just made it easier to become an IRE member. Now, you can join IRE via our secure Web server, or you can download a copy of our membership form in Adobe Acrobat format from the Web site and submit it by fax to (573) 884-5544. For more information, check out http://www.ire.org/membership.html If you have any questions, e-mail Web Master Wally Winfrey at wally@nicar.org.",
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