It was where Milton Berle performed comic skits, children competed in athletic games, and suffragists convened to talk.
A short while ago, if you'd asked Alaina Moore, one half of husband-and-wife indie pop duo Tennis, if they'd make another record, she might have said no. "[Before this album] we took a year off," Moore explains over breakfast near New York's Columbus Circle, where we've convened to talk about the band's fourth album, Yours Conditionally.
While not a pure work environment, they are a forum for professionals from across the industry to convene to talk shop and do business.
We provided an empty studio for those students to convene to talk about their feelings; their fears and frustrations over the difficulty in communicating with their loved ones.
The researchers from SmithGeiger, who had been hired to assess talk shows, convened to tell a group of six executives that "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was, for the first time, on par with "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (and, in some cases, exceeding "Oprah") in the minds of viewers.
On Monday, after the previous night's announcement of the debt accord, Mr. Geithner convened advisers to talk about his future agenda, including dealing with the European debt crisis, housing and overhauling the corporate tax code.
That has raised concerns that an accord remains distant, even though representatives of the six countries -- the so-called Group of Friends -- have convened to help bolster talks.
The talks were convened to discuss issues such as flags, parades and the past.
Nobody had high hopes of success for the talks in Geneva convened to find a political settlement to the Syrian civil war.
Yesterday, as it does twice a month, this group of hardy carnivores convened for lunch to talk about its favorite sandwich and indulge a taste for beef.
On July 29th senior corporate development executives from Cisco (Derek Idemoto), Facebook (Michael Brown), Google (Amin Zoufonoun), Microsoft (Fritz Lanman), Twitter (Jessica Verilli) and Yahoo (Taylor Barada) convened at Startup2Startup to talk about what kinds of companies they want to buy, and why.
