At Pace, Mr. Cronin has begun convening round-table discussions on the environment and ethics, which include some of his old allies from environmental organizations along with elected officials, theologians and business owners (although so far no one from General Electric).
To learn how regulatory policies might affect small businesses, the office regularly convenes round-table discussions with its constituents.
In January 1960 the Belgian government convened a Round Table Conference in Brussels of all Congolese parties to discuss political change, but the MNC refused to participate without Lumumba.
As President Obama convenes another round of debt ceiling negotiations with Congressional leaders on Sunday, lawmakers and administration officials will talk about what's at stake on the Sunday shows.
Governor Herbert convened a round table on immigration demanding "respectful dialogue".One of those at the table, Tony Yapias, Utah's most prominent Latino activist, thinks it helped that almost everybody at the table was Republican.
Jinnah, who was also instrumental in urging Viceroy Lord Irwin (later, 1st Earl Halifax; governed 1926 31) and Prime Minister MacDonald to convene the Round Table Conference in London, was urged by many Muslim compatriots including Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first prime minister (1947 51)—to become the permanent president of the Muslim League.
In a statement, the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary L. Schapiro, called the Wednesday episode unacceptable and said that her staff would "convene a round table in the coming weeks to discuss further steps that can be taken to address these critical issues".
Rosie Perez, whose first film role, in "Do the Right Thing," had such a memorable nude scene that a decade later she's still living it down (or up), convened a round table of some of her friends and colleagues, inviting a reporter to participate, to talk about the pressures, rewards and plain facts about getting naked in public.
The release indicates that the group understands market jitters, promises to never execute a 51percentt attack, and states that it hopes to convene a "round table" of bitcoin stakeholders to address concerns.
To discuss Egypt's protracted power struggle, the Cairo Review of Global Affairs and the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force convened a round table in Washington, D.C. last week.
A poignant example cited by Fannie Mae, which together with several federal and local housing leaders convened a round-table discussion of predatory lending, involved the mother of an employee in Fannie Mae's Washington office.
