Masterson estimates he's had dozens of confabs with state officials.
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Such meetings are a staple of big, global confabs like the G-20.
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You could spend a lifetime hopping from Trek confabs to Comic Con to magical Harry Potter meetups.
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So far, the 15 confabs since 2017 have taken place in Timmons' home base of New York City.
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Critic's notebook Kristin Chenoweth and Ian McKellen demonstrate the increasingly popular art of turning theater palaces into cozy parlors for confabs with fans.
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The "deplorables" diatribe was an intentional denunciation, one that Clinton had reportedly rehearsed over the summer time and time again at donor confabs.
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And that performance -- and, yes, it was a performance -- will get played and replayed at conservative confabs all over the country over the next months.
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Sure, the 2016 Republican National Convention—what with its pilfered speeches and smoke-filled entrances—is already one of the more cuckoo confabs in recent history.
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Closed-door confabs in mahogany and marble rooms with brass spittoons have been replaced with Trump heckling, pouting, demanding and sharing his innermost thoughts on Twitter.
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Managers presiding at virtual-only confabs, critics say, can cherry-pick which shareholders' questions to answer and prevent investors from communicating one on one with management.
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In the hourslong confabs, Congress heard testimony from Calibra chief David Marcus, who is spearheading the Libra project, as well as experts on payment systems and cryptocurrencies.
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In the post-47 percent age, politicians are so appropriately spooked that private confabs may become public that they take care in crafting remarks to interest groups.
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Working from no more than a story outline, which he wrote with Josh Boles, Mr. Johnson creates a credible world of Brylcreemed hair and back-room confabs.
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When he turns up dead the morning after a contentious family gathering — one where he had shouting matches or strained confabs with multiple Thrombeys — the police investigate.
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It also increases the chances that a president who has proven irritable at past confabs of world leaders might say or do something rash in Buenos Aires.
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In the case of InfoWars, Facebook doesn't consider the publication a news organization, which is why InfoWars has not been invited to media confabs run by Brown.
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But the game — with its pitching changes, lengthy commercial breaks and time-consuming confabs on the mound — symbolized a problem for Major League Baseball throughout the season: the pace of play.
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But while the event would be a departure from past March confabs which are usually held in the Bay Area, it would fall in line with recent initiatives at the tech giant.
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And just as Vegas has used conferences to try to clean up its reputation – it's now the venue for more than 21,000 confabs a year - the weed business is shifting in that direction, too.
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Republican lawmakers, who have had to correct or clarify Trump's policy positions at such confabs in real time with cameras rolling, like their Democratic colleagues have had to get used to discussing policy positions publicly.
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It's made a big splash here at Stanford University at the Hot Chips conference, one of the silicon industry's big confabs for product introductions and roadmaps, with various levels of oohs and aahs among attendees.
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For one thing, the show isn't dull; even if some of the conversations here ooze with self-parody, they are often more entertaining than the parade of stuffed shirts that characterize most other tech confabs.
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Other local staff were quick to present themselves to the new American and announce the successes or importance of their respective programs—party building, parliamentary training, women and youth leadership confabs, and local self-government.
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The power Trump fondly imagines that he wields in boardrooms and high-powered Oval Office confabs may appear, superficially in his telling, to take lavishly ornate forms, but is it at bottom just one quality: impressiveness.
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Some will say that's a bad thing, another victory for noise over signal, but it also means that power will shift, if only just, away from the usual boardrooms and donor confabs, and toward the grassroots. 6.
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While his would-be rivals were out campaigning in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina, Biden was teasing Democrats with his scattered public appearances in friendly settings such as college campuses and union confabs.
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Furthermore, if the greatest product of these expensive international confabs is a lowest-common-denominator joint statement – and it often is, despite the massive expense and year of preparation required for each G-7 – then we need to ask whether the G-7 makes sense anymore.
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Trump, who has said he wants the convention to have a "showbiz" feel and dismissed the 2012 convention as "boring," is still planning to unveil his running mate during the four-day festivities, a move that already adds an element of suspense absent from recent conservative confabs.
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"Obama had these confabs with the presidential historians, but I don't think he thinks like a presidential historian," James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, said, referring to the regular dinners Mr. Obama held with leading historians in the early years of his presidency.
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In other cases, though, U.S. Republicans have paraded their connections to far-right political figures, inviting them to meetings with lawmakers; major conservative events, including the Republican National Convention; gatherings at influential think tanks like the Heritage Foundation; and agenda-setting confabs such as the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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As the twenty-fifth annual U.N. climate change agreement negotiations meeting (known as COP 25) starts on December 2, the youth who have been attending these confabs all over the world for more than a decade will hopefully have a new role—a better one—because of Thunberg's efforts.
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Dougherty has been circulating in high-level confabs since Trump's election and reports a persistent mood of entitlement and '90s nostalgia — a refusal to take responsibility for foreign policy failures, to admit that post-national utopianism was oversold, to reckon with the social decay and spiritual crisis shadowing the cosmopolitan dream.
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Tourism to Japan may spike a little bit as a result, but the real messaging from G-6900 organizers is aimed at convincing taxpayers that these annual confabs, and the year long work by governments in between to prepare for the next one and then execute the policies from the last one, are worth the money.
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But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs.
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UNIX Review was an American magazine covering technical aspects of the UNIX operating system and C programming. Recognized for its in-depth technical analyses, the journal also reported on industry confabs and included some lighter fare.
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Forget, too, that Dustin Hoffman is seven years younger than Connery, who plays his father here. Years of agent-inspired casting have inured audiences to weirder confabs than this. But there should be a pay-off to the oddness, some compelling dramatic reason for these three to get together. Like a good script, maybe.
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Like the Mapleton Drive house, the boys' bedroom has an en-suite bathroom. Unlike the previous two seasons, the Pine Street garage is used infrequently as a setting for the masculine confabs of Beaver and his friends or for father and son get-togethers. The adult theme of alcoholism is tackled in "Beaver and Andy". Season 3 was released on DVD on June 15, 2010.
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