Gradually gaining political prominence in Basel, he was elected burgomaster in 1645; he was officially chosen the following year to represent the Swiss Confederation at the impending peace conference at Münster.
area corporate & civic executives met in a room in the Pfizer Bldg. on E. 42 St .to confront a handful of planners & executives from the U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development & Michael S. Koleda, an economist, who has been named director of an impending White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development.
Rumors of an aquisition have been building for months, and in the last hour they reached a head as news of an impending press conference broke.
The dinner had nothing to do with our impending Techonomy Policy conference on June 9 in Washington D.C., but it's no coincidence that the opening session is entitled "Keeping America Innovative In the Age of Data Exhaust". The speakers for that session include Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and veteran tech leader Steve Case.
The impending Copenhagen climate conference was already set to result in utter failure.
A few minutes after the interview, I chatted backstage with Schroepfer and Facebook VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage and asked about their impending f8 developer conference, which takes place on September 22. Schrage's eyes grew wide — he paused, then said that this was going to be big, and that it would go down as either the most important, or the second most important f8 yet.
He hugged the Rev. Brian Shanley, the president at Providence, who helped negotiate the impending split between the conference and the Catholic universities.
"I've got enough problems with my drivers, let alone Bahrain," Horner said when asked during a press conference about the impending race in the troubled country.
"It's like walking blind in a minefield," said Nouriel Roubini, a New York University economics professor who warned of an impending credit crisis at this conference a year ago.
All the while, local officials were reminding the Nets of their impending obsolescence at a news conference that coincided with the team's first day of training camp; they were trumpeting the lease for what is being called Xanadu, a $1.3 billion entertainment, office, sports and shopping project that will be built in the parking lot around where the Nets play.
