Theatres, stores, restaurants, museums and offices are closing for the duration of the pow-wow.
At this year's Davos pow-wow, Bill Gates said Microsoft was thinking about a move into online micropayments.
It hopes a new treaty will be agreed by the end of next year, at a big pow-wow in Copenhagen.
Some environmentally minded celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and U2 frontman Bono are allegedly attending the week-long Durban conference pow-wow starting Monday.
Ms. DE BOURBON-RODRIGUEZ: So sometimes the sounds would be similar to the percussive sounds of a trumpet or violins, depending on whether azoo-zoo or pow-pow.
As a Vice President, I was involved in some strategic pow-wows, but my gut feeling was that I was on the short list to get booted.
They, like their colleagues in the private sector, will apparently have to wait for a grand autumn pow-wow between government, employers and unions on wages, jobs and working hours.
But as he trudges from one international pow-wow to another, he must envy colleagues like Britain's Tony Blair who do not have invisible federal guards hovering at their side.
The Council of the Baltic Sea States, to which all countries on the Baltic rim belong, is to hold its second heads-of-government pow-wow next month in Riga, Latvia's capital.
In the lounge, with its grand piano and dance floor, a half-dozen residents were gathered for a pow-wow with the dining services manager, discussing the pros and cons of taking fruit up to their room.
When McCain was behaving like a reasonable politician whose word could be trusted, he said if the top brass in the military supported repealing "don't ask, don't tell, " he -- a former Navy pilot and POW -- would follow their lead.
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Unlike the Starter Packs for Giants this includes a previously released figure in the form of Stealth Elf albeit in reposed series 3 form that offers a new Wow-Pow.
C. fully ignored that the U.S. has for over a quarter-century expressly refused to ratify a treaty (the 1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions) that would grant POW protections to non-state militias.
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Patton disgraced himself by dispatching an armored column behind enemy lines to rescue his son-in-law from a POW camp at Hammelburg.
Pav (pronounced, enjoyably, "pow"), the small, square, hamburger-bun-like roll in which the fritter is sandwiched wouldn't pose any problems either.
"A-list stars are looking for roles with immediate emotional pow, " says Jack Ofield , communications professor and filmmaker at San Diego State University.
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