Representatives from several of those unions said they did not see this as the beginning of a newly cozy relationship between the administration and organized labor but as a finite area of shared interest.
Serving as discussant in the foregoing session, Jackson Ewing, Director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, however, highlighted that cooperation on carbon trading – especially among countries facing diplomatic stalemate on other issues – might be an area of shared interest and opportunity to foster mutual trust.
Income and wealth inequality among the aged is one area of shared interest where cross-disciplinary fertilization is occurring.
"I am confident my UK visit will deepen our ties and we will cooperate extensively in a range of areas of shared interests," Mr Modi wrote.
Geocities is among a sector of Internet businesses known as virtual communities, because they offer free real estate in cyberspace and often organize chat areas of shared interests as virtual neighborhoods, villages, etc. Virtual communities hope to sell advertising based on the number of visitors these home-grown Web pages attract.
Speakers will be invited both from within and without the Yale community as the colloquium works to develop and explore areas of shared interest.
The theory, advanced by aides like Mr. Donilon and Michael McFaul, then the president's Russia adviser, was that after the rupture over Russia's 2008 war with Georgia, there were opportunities for cooperation in areas of shared interest.
And rather than look for areas of shared interest, such as trade that could boost Pakistan's moribund economy, officials in Islamabad are quick to raise new areas of potential conflict with their neighbours, notably over the use of water from the Indus river.Meanwhile, Mr Singh, for all his good intentions, is in a weak position to launch a new foreign-policy drive.
Although the University's Council of the Humanities has long promoted community across academic disciplines, the retreat was a new initiative by philosophy professor Gideon Rosen, who chairs the council, to bring scholars together off-campus to discuss not only their particular academic specialties, but also their areas of shared interest.
