Every manager has thought about it: Put in a worldwide videoconferencing system, allow customers to patch in via their desktop computers and tighten communication across the company.
The challenge of taking on Shiites in addition to Sunni insurgents was clearly a complication that President Bush and his aides did not expect, prompting a day of emergency meetings between Mr. Bush, who was beginning his Easter vacation at his ranch in Texas, and senior military commanders and Bush administration officials in Iraq and in Washington via a videoconference.
This year, Mr. Obama joined financial supporters in Beijing via a videoconference to shake the overseas money tree.
He will appear in a videoconference, the campaign said.
In a videoconference with reporters at the Pentagon on Monday, General Abizaid ticked off the challenges confronting American officials charged with producing effective, reliable Iraqi forces.
She ordered that a deposition be taken in a videoconference, with Mr. bin al-Shibh questioned where he is being held, at an undisclosed overseas location.
But problems persist bringing in diesel fuel, hobbling efforts to gear up aid distribution, Edmond Mulet, the chief United Nations official in Haiti, said in a videoconference with reporters.
In a videoconference with the president on Monday, General Petraeus recommended taking up to two months to evaluate security in Iraq before considering additional withdrawals, officials said Monday.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who is vacationing in Wyoming, also planned to speak to the Iraqi opposition leaders in a videoconference on Saturday.
"They look to be groups who have spontaneously come together and are attacking us," Mr. Bremer said in a videoconference with reporters at the Pentagon.
