This week I co-hosted a conference of 225 senior leaders from more than 70 companies.
Late last year a conference of coaches in Brazil was debating this very topic.
Speaking at a conference of conservative politicians and activists, Mr Romney said pessimism among Republicans had become "fashionable".
Instead, he was at a ski lodge outside of Anchorage, Alaska, sipping wine and pontificating at a conference of his editors.
Earlier this month, he told a conference of black managers that the government must restructure state industries more quickly.
More official presentations of the Planck data are underway at a conference of the European Space Agency today in the Netherlands.
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In 1986, when Pope John Paul II organized a conference of world religious leaders to promote peace, he held it in Assisi.
Note he did not stride into a conference of unionists and act like a London City slicker by treating them with contempt.
Several studies presented at a conference of the American College of Cardiology evaluated a class of cholesterol- lowering drugs know as statins.
For the past two years, Mr Bernanke has used the event, a conference of the world's central bankers, to indicate the Fed's intentions.
At a conference of academics, bankers and officials in New York this week, a consensus emerged that the Basle approach is fundamentally flawed.
And a 2, 700-patient trial unveiled at a conference of cancer doctors in May showed that Avastin did not prevent early-stage colon tumors from returning years later.
At a conference of Alzheimer's disease specialists in Chicago this week, neurologists are looking eagerly to get some of the first good clues on whether they are right.
But they end up being at the same place, at a conference of black journalists when the journalist of the year is killed before he gets his award.
Recently, at a conference of business writers, Ballmer lashed out.
Research presented to a conference of the American Heart Association in March linked soda consumption to about 180, 000 deaths a year from diabetes, heart disease and other conditions.
The work was presented early this year at a conference of the American Nuclear Society and has been submitted for publication at a peer-reviewed journal, according to Dr. Xu.
At a conference of heart specialists next month, it is expected to report results of a trial in 47 patients, showing Enbrel improves heart function for up to 18 months.
In January, a CIA official told a conference of cybersecurity professionals that power outages affecting multiple non-U.S. cities had been the work of hackers. (See: Hackers Cut Cities' Power).
As The Economist went to press, the prime minister was preparing to chivvy a conference of business folk to work harder at exporting beyond sickly Europe to faster-growing emerging markets.
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The preliminary results are encouraging, as he reported this week at a conference of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (as the field is known) in St Petersburg Beach, Florida.
Vinod Khosla has rather stunned a conference of doctors with his idea that what we really need to do is get rid of 80% of doctors and replace them with robots.
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"There is a broader, deeper discontent in the region, " Powell told top business leaders at a conference of the Council of the Americas, which lobbies on issues affecting business in the Americas.
Yet the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, speaking at a conference of central bankers three weeks ago, said that the growth of internet trading risks making central banks completely irrelevant.
Addressing a conference of corporate directors at Stanford University's Law School, Mr. Greifeld said Nasdaq had tested its systems extensively before the May 18 IPO, simulating higher trading volumes than actually occurred.
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He told a conference of the American Society of Microbiology in Salt Lake City this week that in experiments in mice infected with MRSA, the antibody treatment inhibited the growth of bacteria.
Were it not for the heavily armed police presence that have turned the ExCel Centre into a protest-free zone, the day's gathering could easily be mistaken for a conference of executive junior managers.
Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is already headquartered in the Hague with a Conference of State Parties, an Executive Council, and a Technical Secretariat whose verification responsibilities extend over 100 pages.
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