The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.

* 1961 – In Washington, D. C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.

On February 26, 1986 The Washington Post ran an article describing Korb's speech at a press conference held the day prior as " critical of increased defense spending.

President Harding spearheaded, with the urging of the Senate, a monumental global conference, held in Washington, D. C., to limit the armaments of world powers, including the U. S., Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, China, Belgium, Netherlands and Portugal.

Harding was also the first president that pursued world security through arms reduction and regulation during the Washington peace conference.

** In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference.

In November 1881, Blaine extended invitations to Latin American countries for a conference to meet in Washington the following November.

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

The next CSCW conference would be held in Seattle, Washington in 2012 and the program and the complete conference proceedings from the last conference in 2010 can be consulted here.

He was a delegate to the Peace conference of 1861 in Washington, and in 1866 was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey, as a Republican, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.

During this time, however, the court was divided 4-4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand.

The three-state strategy was publicly unveiled at a press conference held in Washington, D. C., in December 1993.

ET, after confirming that Explorer 1 was indeed in orbit, a news conference was held in the Great Hall at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC to announce it to the world.

Pickering, Van Allen, and von Braun display a full-scale model of Explorer 1 at a crowded news conference in Washington, DC after confirmation the satellite was in orbit.

In Thy Kingdom Come, Randall Balmer recounts comments that Paul M. Weyrich, who he describes as " one of the architects of the Religious Right in the late 1970s ", made at a conference, sponsored by a Religious Right organization, that they both attended in Washington in 1990:

In 2007-08, Carolina again missed out as Washington stormed back to take the division title on the last day of the season, leaving the Hurricanes second in the division and ninth overall in the conference, and making the Canes only the second club in NHL history to miss the playoffs for two seasons running after a Cup triumph.

After a first round win over the Washington Wizards, the Cavaliers rebounded from a 0 – 2 deficit in the second round against the Detroit Pistons, winning three consecutive games to come one game away from the conference finals.

In 2008, The Great Northwest Athletic Conference reinstated football, and Central Washington along with Western Washington rejoined the conference, so the previous format of the Battle in Seattle being played at CenturyLink Field and the Cascade Cup was contested in Ellensburg.

As he left office to return to his law practice in Washington, Clifford expressed the hope and expectation that international tensions would abate, citing the shift in the Vietnam confrontation from the battlefield to the conference table, and the evident willingness of the Soviet Union to discuss limitations on strategic nuclear weapons.

The semi-finalists gathered in Washington, DC, from June 22 – 27, 1985, for a conference on space education and to meet with the National Review Panel that would select the 10 finalists.

In 1994 he compared model results to observed temperatures and found that the predicted temperatures for 1950 – 1980 deviated from the temperatures that had actually occurred, from which he concluded in his regular column in The Washington Times — with the headline that day " Climate Claims Wither under the Luminous Lights of Science "— that climate models are faulty.

After giving me a play-by-play account of what had happened between him and Madame, he concluded that he had invited Madame to return to Washington with us.

Later in April, Gen. Sherman, without consulting Washington, concluded an agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to effect the latter's surrender, believing it to be consistent with Lincoln's recent statements to him at City Point ; Secretary Stanton and Grant quickly surmised the terms were much too lenient.

Cook County Medical Examiner Robert J. Stein performed an autopsy on Washington and concluded that Washington had died of a heart attack.

An independent study analyzed test score results for over 21, 000 students from three districts located in Orange County, California ; Seattle, Washington ; and Fort Collins, Colorado, and concluded that students have significantly higher test scores in classrooms that optimize daylighting design than classrooms that do not.

The meeting concluded with a simulation of the satellite's track as it passed into the orbital area visible from Washington, D. C. ( where it is visible from the Earth's surface ).

The tomb of Nepherites I, which Donald Reford concluded was destroyed by the Persians, was discovered by a joint team from the University of Washington and the University of Toronto in 1992-1993.

The observatory makes prominent use of the slogan " Home of the World's Worst Weather ", a claim that originated with a 1940 article by Charles Brooks ( the man generally given the majority of credit for creating the Mount Washington Observatory ), titled " The Worst Weather In the World " ( even though the article concluded that Mt Washington most likely did not have the world's worst weather ).

After noting that, unlike Lee, his fellow Virginian, Thomas stood by the Union, Sherman wrote: Sherman concluded that Grant and Thomas were " heroes " deserving " monuments like those of Nelson and Wellington in London, well worthy to stand side by side with the one which now graces our city of ' George Washington.

At the time Stevens arrived in the Washington, D. C., to take up his new job, a constitutional convention to write an Alaska constitution had just been concluded on the campus of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

" He also concluded that according to his interpretation of the Washington Administrative Code, " voters who improperly cast provisional ballots should not be disenfranchised.

" The Washington Post, on the other hand, described the photographs as " beautiful, assaultive, grotesque, and seductive ," and concluded that Show Me!

On June 29, Taylor reported to Washington that a treaty had been concluded and that a " most cordial feeling prevails " between white and Indian.

Clay made a tour of the South just before the Whig nominating convention and concluded that the sentiment in favor of annexation in that part of the country was not as strong as had been assumed in Washington, D. C. Acting on this belief, and against Crittenden's advice, Clay sent a letter opposing annexation to Crittenden, asking him to have it published in the National Intelligencer.

" in which the newspaper concluded: " The 18. 86-mile Green Line, which some argue should have been the first built because it would serve the most disadvantaged sections of the Washington area, is last on the construction list and threatened with extinction.

* Bellevue, Washington, USA-Sister city agreement concluded in 1969

While Pollack and Byman argued that such a containment strategy would be very difficult to make work given the historical problems of doing so and the specific problems created by previous American actions in Iraq, they also concluded that containment would likely prove America's least bad option because U. S. interests in the Persian Gulf were so important that Washington would have to try to mitigate the impact of spillover.

Two months later on December 16, 2000, the Steelers concluded play at Three Rivers Stadium, with a 24-3 victory over the Washington Redskins.

He concluded his career with the Washington Redskins in 1974.

He concluded his career in 1974 with the NFL Washington Redskins.

His work in Washington, D. C. was concluded in 1859 and he then spent some time in visiting his relatives and friends in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Although the Washington National Monument Society concluded that his design seemed " vastly superior in artistic taste and beauty " to the obelisk already under construction, the obelisk continued to be built, and is what we see today as the monument.