Disaster risk reduction on the oceans and in coastal zones is another main theme of the meeting.
What was outstanding was that these were people from groups that traditionally distrust one another, a fact made all the more striking by the theme of the meeting.
The theme of the meeting for 2010 is to explore the inter-relationship between the Culture of Peace and Human Dignity, in the last year of the United Nations Decade of the Culture of Peace.
On Thursday, Cheney spoke to the weekly "Theme Team" meeting organized by House conservatives and two people present at the breakfast said the former vice president said if Clinton declined to voluntarily answer questions, then she should be subpoenaed to testify.
Direct combat against showrooming was a major theme in an analyst meeting a few months ago.
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It is in this challenging context that the World Economic Forum will highlight The Power of Collaborative Innovation as the principal theme for the Annual Meeting 2008 in Davos.
The need to avoid complacency is a regular theme at every Davos meeting - but this was the first in five years that there seemed a genuine risk of it breaking out.
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The year after the fund scandals broke, it devoted its annual meeting to the theme of restoring investor confidence.
Each quarterly meeting has a stated theme that calls for employees to costume themselves accordingly.
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In fact, the Greenspan era is the theme for this year's meeting.
The meeting will develop the theme of earth resources across three sessions.
But with most countries emerging slowly from the gloom, the theme at this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) -- Shared Norms for the New Reality -- is intended to move the agenda away from collective navel-gazing, towards a post-crisis mindset based on pragmatic realism.
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This theme is proposed as main focus for the meeting of the International Working Group, convened on 24 October and formed by experts in representation of the participating ministries of culture.
Celtic are also having to cut their cloth according to the relative decline of Scottish football, which will be a theme you might see running through the annual meeting on 14 October.
Player safety was the theme of the committee's three-day meeting in Indianapolis, with the ejection for targeting the most noticeable change fans will notice in 2013 across all NCAA divisions.
The High Level Meeting with the 2012 Presidential Candidates under the theme, Promoting Peaceful Elections and Justice: Taking a Stand against Electoral Violence, Impunity and Injustice, was jointly convened by the Manhyia Palace, home of the Asantehene, and the National Peace Council, and facilitated by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG).
That was the theme of first post-debate debate and affected the second meeting, when Mr Gore, overcompensating, pulled his punches.
"It was a big theme shift in January when the Fed lowered rates before their scheduled meeting and then lowered them again, " Callahan says.
Another meeting will take place in Dakar on 28 January on the same theme.
At The Pool, a new social network for meeting friends in a more personal way, is targeting this communal theme.
The findings and conclusions of the expert group meeting will also provide the basis for a report of the UN Secretary-General on this theme early in 2003.
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