In April, for example, he flew his private jet — a Boeing 737 — to Las Vegas to attend an exclusive gathering of fund managers organized by Drobny Global Advisors, where he mingled with other millionaires amid conversations about such arcane investments as Turkish glassmaking stocks and Brazilian farmland.
Amid conversations about budget cuts and safety nets, my curiosity was peaked as to why some of the wealthiest oil companies in the world were being given a helping hand by the American people.
Clements writes with compassion and wistful humor, setting her characters' melancholy amid effervescent conversation and brilliant summer scenery.
He seemed too polite — either he was saving his energy or waiting like a man stuck in traffic — to pipe up much amid the conversation.
"It's too expensive to live here," said Aileen Lee, the founder of seed-stage VC firm Cowboy Ventures, amid a conversation with leading venture capitalists Spark Capital general partner Megan Quinn and Benchmark general partner Sarah Tavel.
Just one day earlier, former House speaker Newt Gingrich also name-dropped Chicago -- which he called "the murder capital of the United States" -- amid a conversation about gun control on CBS.
Amid nostalgic conversation about its extensive legacy in which the voice actor who plays Jake, John DiMaggio, said he cried after the last recording— it was announced that the first part of Adventure Time: The Ultimate Adventure will air on September 3. Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily.
It surfaces on days when we're not expecting it, amid different conversations and settings.
Weekley's new trial comes amid national conversations about police brutality and institutional racism -- conversations sparked by the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri last month.
I recently took part in an academic focus group of mixed-race students, and amid our conversations about growing up in mixed-race households and racially "choosing sides," the topic of Tinder invariably came up.
