Certainly, Mr Messier confesses to delight at his first invitation to an exclusive gathering of media moguls: "Shit, they're taking us seriously!"Today's task, however, is less glamorous.
Yet for all the political and financial firepower assembled here, the Romney confab was not the only, or necessarily the most exclusive, gathering of ultrarich Republicans this weekend.
Sneak past the velvet rope keeping the great unwashed out of the party, and another rope will materialise behind it, guarding an even more exclusive gathering.
A FORMER vice-president, Al Gore, and one of the co-founders of Google, Larry Page, were already seated on the stage of Google's "Zeitgeist" conference, an exclusive gathering for the intelligentsia, but the third chair was still empty.
Mr. Brady presented the idea at an exclusive gathering of international financiers in Washington this year that included, among others, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet.
In their first state dinner, President and Mrs. Bush tonight offered President Vicente Fox of Mexico and his wife, Marta, a spicy meal of upscale Tex-Mex cuisine, an exclusive gathering and a fireworks display.
executive summit meetings, exclusive gatherings, often lasting several days, where Hewlett-Packard officials wooed top customers.
He spoke at conferences alongside top customers and was regularly invited to exclusive gatherings of prominent buyers.
Ms. Hammond, 53, and her husband, Dr. Patrick Stubgen, a neurologist, have been mentioned in society pages and gossip columns as attending exclusive gatherings in Manhattan and the Hamptons.
He has interviewed more than 250 affluent Americans and has attended exclusive gatherings where the well-off discussed their feelings about money and giving.
Mr. Kearney was one example of the way in which Klaus Schwab, the founder and organizer of the annual gatherings, has sought to bring some of the street anger that has confronted economic summits in recent years into his exclusive gatherings.
