"I was at a meeting of the Deans of England and somebody was saying nearly all the cathedrals in England are Grade I listed buildings, with one or two exceptions, " he said.

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One July day a couple of years ago, when I was at a medical meeting in Nantucket, I had an afternoon free and went looking for someone to hit with.

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Mr. DEMETRIOS PAPADEMETRIOU (Migration Policy Institute): It is amazing to go to a place - I was at a ministerial meeting just last Friday in Copenhagen - and it was simply amazing to hear the Danes and the Dutch and the Germans and all that in the same conversation as we would have, or have had, in the United States in the past year or so.

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And I was at a Jobs Council meeting up in Pittsburgh with CEOs from companies across the board, many of whom have been traditional supporters of the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable and other organizations that the Republican Party has claimed a lot of support for.

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The loudest cheer at a public meeting I was at in Llanelli about the future of local services came after someone said "I don't care if it's safe, as long as it's here".

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About 14 years ago, when I was a parent of young children, as preparation for a talk at a doctors' meeting about vaccines, I surveyed (rather informally) parents - mostly mothers of course - waiting in the playground of our local primary school.

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As I mentioned at the meeting, a review of every failed pension was merited for several reasons.

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And I was also a bit nervous at the time because we faced a very important summit meeting ahead.

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At the New Paradigms meeting (a satellite of JPM Conference), a panel I was involved with discussed the perceived funding gap and whether great companies were still getting financing.

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And as you said -- I was not -- I was in Tucson yesterday, so I was not here yesterday, but he began yesterday at the 7:30 a.m. senior staff meeting.

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We had a small meeting on Saturday (at the Malaysian Grand Prix) and I can say it was very good.

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