Addressing the TV press at the biannual confab has never been one of McPherson's favorite activities.
It feels more political convention than tech confab, with surprise guests and post-keynote wrap up shows.
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I'm sitting in an all-day mobility confab with other analysts at IBM in Littleton, Mass.
Precious metals traders will closely scrutinize the weekend news coming out of that confab.
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's Rupert Murdoch were attending a business confab with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
It is being staged as more of a political party rally, than a geek confab (product launches aside).
Make no mistake, this latest confab reflected as much confusion as did its predecessor nearly 76 years ago.
The semi-annual confab is chock-full of cocktail parties, coffee breaks and, during the summer edition, an awards show.
Instead, they must have seen the confab as a sterling opportunity to buy or trade some cut-price Iranian crude.
When NBC's newly appointed entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman appeared at the Television Critics Association's bi-annual confab Monday, he disappointed everyone there.
Also, gold might try to hold its firmer tone ahead of the Federal Reserve confab next week in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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This week, the final Bank of Japan meeting under Governor Shirakawa is set for a two-day confab on Wednesday and Thursday.
The regional security forum, which immediately follows the ministers' confab, brings together about two-dozen nations in various "consultative" and "dialogue" roles.
Traders and investors are looking forward to the Jackson Hole, Wyoming U.S. Federal Reserve confab next week, and the mid-September FOMC meeting.
Fadlallah is a strange choice of talking head at a confab which typically debates changing economics of news and how to enhance global press freedoms.
And so it begins: the Television Critics Association's press tour, a biannual confab where the purveyors of television showcase their upcoming wares in return for ink.
To that end, Technicolor has developed Qeo, a software system designed to allow TVs, handheld devices, intercom systems and appliances to all have one big confab.
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While the metrics for success aren't yet clear, a noticeably slimmer Leno, who addressed the TV press at the Television Critics Associations' semi-annual confab in Pasadena, Calif.
It was at this confab two years ago that Bernanke signaled the second round of easing which gave rise to a massive asset market rally across the board.
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Breaking off from a hurried confab with her, Mr Brazauskas explains that the problem with the last government was not its general policies but the prime minister's personality.
For another client at an industry confab, each issue of the paper was folded with an insert displaying a USA Today "snapshot" color chart describing a fact about the company.
"What interested us was the politician's wife's trajectory, because it seemed less certain and much more interesting, " says Robert King at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual confab in Pasadena, Calif.
The day before the conference, developers were certain that Facebook, which unveiled a redesign of its site just days before its confab, would not be announcing a payments system for applications.
In August, NBC's prime-time entertainment chief, Angela Bromstad, spoke relatively candidly at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual confab about the necessary creative adjustments the show would need in its second season.
Regardless, the confab will once again end with its GOP presidential nomination straw poll, which is considered by many as a key gauge of conservative sentiment and garners much media coverage.
"We believe in our network and we fundamentally believe in our business, " says CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler to a roomful of TV reporters at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual confab in Pasadena, Calif.
Al-Marayati was selected to participate in the confab by the U.S. delegation, which was led by Ambassador Avis Bohlen, a Georgetown University professor and former Clinton administration official, according to MPAC's website.
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The annual confab in lovely Traverse City, Mich.
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Before I became Dallas Fed president in February 1991, I was only vaguely aware of the Jackson Hole confab even though I had been a senior official of the Richmond (and Baltimore) Fed for several years.
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When an analyst from Healthcor Management, a New York hedge fund, showed up to the Boston confab without a ticket to hear what Elan had to say, the company refused to let him in.
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