This notion was reinforced the other night when I attended a conference on the Remaking of Wall Street.
The serendipity came to a head when I attended a breakfast with Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker.
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Indeed, the policy announcement followed the path that was already visible when I attended the Conservative annual conference in Manchester last month.
Indeed, I learned something I didn't know when I attended the standing-room-only Bierstadt lecture, delivered by Annette Blaugrund, a former director of the National Academy Museum.
When I attended school, there were two camps of people: The people who did what everyone else did, and the people who did their own thing.
Being a keynote speaker achieved a goal I set 13 years ago when I attended the Smart Women Smart Money Conference hosted by Idaho State Treasurer Ron Crane.
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Fast forward to late last week when I attended a meeting in New York with Tim Stevens and RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis to get the latest dish on the PlayBook.
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But the idea took on greater resonance when I attended the ANA Masters of Marketing Conference a couple of weeks ago, most notably when I listened to Michael Francis, the chief marketing officer of Target.
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Some of the biggest stars present when I attended in 2010 were Chris Hemsworth, there to promote Thor for the 18-25 set, and host Neil Patrick Harris, whom we were cautioned not to ask about video games.
When I recently attended a rally for him in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Cairo, there was a large, enthusiastic crowd chanting and waving posters.
At certain points during the screening I attended, when the action was interrupted by major eruptions of information, a sealed chamber under partial vacuum might have described the screening room.
For starters, the all-time single session crowd record was set in 2012, when 18, 919 people attended the 2012 Division I Wrestling Championship finals.
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When talking about my business, I ask if my investors have paid for a wedding, attended a large wedding reception, or tried to buy a green product online in recent years.
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"Then the speaker's been to a couple of places I haven't been, " he said when he learned how many Ms. Quinn had attended.
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Now, later on in - when they started the White House Iraq Group, yes, he attended those meetings, but so did I, so did Secretary Rice, so did a half a dozen - eight other people.
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