`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

On January 18, Ernest Gross conducted a press conference at the U.N. lasting an hour.

He and Dean John W. Schwada of the Business School outlined the project at a recent conference.

Their meeting at San Francisco is nominally scheduled as a conference of the California Democratic Council directorate.

`` Well '', he began, `` It seems like some people in Paris want to hear more from me than those fellers over at the conference house do.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

There is little optimism here that the Communists will be any more docile at the conference table than they were in military actions on the ground in Laos.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

Secretary Goldberg and Sen. Morse will hold a joint press conference at the Roosevelt Hotel at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Blaine Whipple, executive secretary of the Democratic Party of Oregon, reported Tuesday.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

Spice-Nice, counseled by Georgia-Pacific Corp., had previously taken first-place honors in both local competition and the regional conference at San Francisco.

-- `` The present recovery movement will gather steady momentum to lift the economy to a new historic peak by this autumn '', Beryl W. Sprinkel, economist of Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, predicted at the closing session here Tuesday of Investment Bankers Assn., California group, conference.

However, Peterson, president of Bell & Howell, warned 800 U.S. marketing leaders attending a national conference at the Ambassador, that the future will belong to the industrialist of creative and `` unconventional wisdom ''.

The poll was taken at the Center's annual builders' intentions conference.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

Premier Khrushchev wrecked the conference at its initial session with a bitter denunciation of the U. S. for the U-2 incident.

The Kennedy hope is that, at the conference or through bilateral talks, the low-wage textile-producing countries in Asia and Europe will see that `` dumping '' practices cause friction all around and may result in import quotas.

* Andy Warhol makes a digital painting of Debbie Harry at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985

During the press conference, the astronauts answered questions pertaining to several technical and non-technical aspects of the mission prepared and listed by priority at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston by journalists covering the flight.

Taniyama – Weil conjecture ) based on a roughly formulated question of Taniyama at the 1955 Nikkō conference.

This plot, launched with the full knowledge of Nivelle and the French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, was announced in guarded terms at a War Cabinet meeting on 24 February, to which neither Robertson nor Lord Derby ( Secretary of State for War ) had been invited, then landed on Robertson and Haig without warning at an Anglo-French conference at Calais ( 26-7 Feb ).

He still enjoyed Beaufort's favour, and retaining his place in the council was employed on important missions, especially at the congress of Arras in 1435, and the conference at Calais in 1438.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??

`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

The bulk of the press corps was covering Rheinholdt's conference.

In connection with this conference, a 64-page supplement was published in the October 2nd edition of The Providence Sunday Journal.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

The issue was left in abeyance, presumably for the peace conference.

Their joint statement was welcomed by the Western delegations who will attend tomorrow the nineteenth plenary session of the fourteen-nation conference on the future of Laos.

Berger's decision to sue for the full amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning press conference.

One of the enduringly influential early resolutions of the conference was the so-called Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1888.

As the delegates made their way to the conference by train, Germany was invading Belgium.

The penultimate day of the flight was largely spent performing experiments, aside from a twenty minute press conference during the second half of the day.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

Indeed, after something like thirty years ' experience of international conferences of one kind and another, if I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice.

The phrase was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and was eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later — the first ever ( of many ) conferences given by Dr. John Stapp, a U. S. Air Force colonel and Flight Surgeon in the 1950s.

The same quality was observed by director and screenwriter Hobart Henley: " If something that read well in conference turns out not so good on the screen, I go to him and, like that — Henley snaps his fingers — he has a remedy.

In a press conference on April 3, 2009, prior to his performance at the David Lynch Foundation benefit concert " Change Begins Within ", Paul McCartney commented that Transcendental Meditation was a gift The Beatles had received from Maharishi at a time when they were looking for something to stabilise them.

When the conference opened the British political world was a jittery one ; on 12 November the opposition had narrowly defeated the government on an amendment to the Home Rule Bill, and the next evening Asquith attempted to introduce a motion reversing the previous vote, something met with hysterical shouting from the opposition.

:: From The Nation: “ For the first time ever, campus progressives convened, conversed and organized at their own national conference ― something right-wing groups have done annually since the 1970s ....

Crutzen has explained, " I was at a conference where someone said something about the Holocene.

Calling a conference of his corps commanders — something he had been loath to do previously in the Virginia Campaign — in his Centreville headquarters, Pope agreed with their decision to retreat further into the Washington defenses.

Students a “ Freedom of Speech Movement ” and Mario Savio became its poetic leader, stating that “ freedom of speech was something that represents the very dignity of what a human is ... ” The Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ), a well-connected and organized club, hosted a conference entitled “ Black Power and its Challenges.

The team went 33 – 3 and won Self's sixth straight Big 12 Championship, something no team had accomplished in a BCS conference since John Wooden's UCLA teams of the 1960s and 70s.

There was speculation about whether the Bulldogs would qualify for a BCS bid, something then unprecedented for a ' Mid Major ' conference team.

Following this success, in 2007 the United Netherlands Delegation to HNMUN won both the prizes for Best Large Delegation and Best International Delegation, succeeding in something no other European delegation had achieved in the history of the conference.

As a result, the ' Neural ' in the NIPS acronym is now something of a historical relic, and the conference spans a wide range of topics.

For example, the Prophet Muhammad is quoted as saying, ' We have returned from the little jihad actual war, and now we are heading toward the big jihad struggle against the evil within each of us, not the external war with our enemies '... I participated in a conference organized by the Spanish government to commemorating the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings ... following a comment by a Muslim participant that we shouldn't mention jihad in connection with the terrorist attacks-because jihad is something that Muslims respect-I got up and responded as follows: ' I'd like to relate to this comment not as an academic, but as a Jew .... We Jews have in our Bible the edict of ' an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

In 2004, Meyer led the undefeated Utes to a Bowl Championship Series bid, something that had not been done by a team from a non-automatically qualifying BCS conference since the formation of the BCS in 1998.

They thought that the conference might give ID more academic credibility, something it lacks, and that it would be used for propaganda by the ID movement and the Christian press.

While helping her mother at a conference, which included the official unveiling of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Tinya phases through the decorative UP globe rather than go around it and spots something suspicious.

This conference is the strongest evidence implicating Albert Speer with having knowledge of the Final Solution, something he had denied at the Nuremberg Trials.

He denounced prison conditions generally in a press conference after his release, saying, " The inhumanity with which the prisoners are treated and their total lack of recourse to any representation or justice combined with the filth and stench of daily life is something I will never forget and I will not rest until their conditions are improved.

Explaining the reason for the sale, Raffles Chief Executive Jennie Chua said " To grow, the hotel business would need significant investments and potential cash calls and that's something we would not like to do ," at a press conference.

Two points of note here: First, the 1946 conference was the last time the American Mafia's Top " Boss of bosses " Charles " Lucky " Luciano could have the full-expression of his power mean something, because earlier in 1946 he'd been deported from America back to Italy, but got to the Cuba conference on a forged passport.