"It appears that the membershipcriteria were set so that a certain group of market participants could meet that, and everyone else would have to jump through hoops," Mr. Katz said.
Katz先生说，会员行的标准是仅有特定的一些参与者才可以达到，任何其他人都必须往这个圈里跳。
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They also knew a lot of female business owners who were left out because they couldn't meet YPO's membershipcriteria, a minimum number of employees and so many millions in annual revenues "."
Mr Rehn notes that, if one took the worst features of every old EU country, one could easily come up with an amalgam that would barely meet any of the criteria for EU membership.