And like a storm-battered airport timetable, this one was ever-changing, as delegates got held up in meetings, decided to visit another American city or stopped off to do some shopping on Fifth Avenue before heading home.
"At least he had the courtesy to do it behind closed doors," Alexander joked, adding, "We spend most of our time in team meetings deciding what we're going to do to each other".
He directs the criminal activity in his territory, calls meetings, decides on memberships and promotions, and resolves conflicts.
"We will have the shareholders meeting decide," he said.
The meeting decided that "all deputies in the group should give up privileges".
Understanding the importance of studies on plasmids and other mobile genetic elements, participants of the meeting decided to establish the International Society for Plasmid Biology.
Every so often somebody at a meeting decides to invoke God's favor for some commercial or competitive enterprise.
On the eve of the meeting deciding the fate of 25 poor-performing schools, the city's Education Department offered two of them a reprieve.
