The full results of Brunswick's poll are to be released on Thursday at the annual mergers and acquisitions conference at Tulane University's law school, considered the pre-eminent gathering of practitioners in the industry.
To spend five days at South by Southwest in Austin — the pre-eminent global gathering for the technocrats — is to observe all this in concentrate.
Seated in front of me, en route to Marxism 2009, the pre-eminent British gathering of the international radical left, are a clean-cut man and woman in their early 20s.
CHICAGO'S auto show is no longer the nation's pre-eminent industry gathering -- Detroit gets the spotlight now -- but the domestic manufacturers made themselves at home during press previews last week.
It is tempting to see his sedulous gathering of eminent friendships as a counterpart of his manuscript collecting.
In 1888 Booth founded a club, the Players, in New York City that was intended as a gathering place for actors and eminent men in other professions.
I had dinner with Douglas one night at Sushi Village, a longtime gathering place for Whistler's eminent dirtbags and snow-riding idols — a ski bum's Chasen's.
By Desmond Shawe-Taylor The New Yorker, December 10 , 1973P. 181 Some years ago, during the funeral service for an eminent and respected musician, the largely professional gathering was stunned to hear the organist, as his solo contribution to the proceedings, launch into the lilting and voluptuous strains of the Barcarolle.
The New Yorker, December 10 , 1973P. 181 Some years ago, during the funeral service for an eminent and respected musician, the largely professional gathering was stunned to hear the organist, as his solo contribution to the proceedings, launch into the lilting and voluptuous strains of the Barcarolle.
"While I was on board I soon realised that the boot room, where we all changed our clothing and left our shoes, had turned into a scene of social chaos," McEwan said, describing how the eminent scientists, who down the hall were gathering to talk earnestly about the future of the humankind, were also capable of stealing each others' footwear and regarding their colleagues with deep distrust.
It included footage of the president, deadpan as ever, deftly gathering hay with a pitchfork, and of four eminent visitors, Henry Ford, Harvey and Russell Firestone and Thomas Edison.
