Assholes in the middle of business meetings stopped everything to watch it.
The town hall meetings stopped being retail politics when the sponsors were forced to start broadcasting them to makeshift press rooms set up for the overflowing news media.
(When Daschle went to see Rahm Emanuel to register these concerns, the President, who had been quiet during the early health-care meetings, stopped by and reassured Daschle of his commitment).
After a few years there, Ms. Gooding, who works as a producer of business meetings, "stopped waiting for something to happen, that would make major decisions in my life occur," she said.
In between, the days were crammed with meetings, and when the meetings stopped, the writing work began -- a never-ending stream of memos, reports, and comments on other people's drafts.
Sprewell did not let the meeting stop him from addressing his desire to bring Joe Smith to the Knicks.
"We agonized for weeks prior to the meeting, stopped all work other than that related to the consultant meeting and pulled together presentations and rationale about why we do things a certain way".
But the latest meeting "stopped talking about health care worker and started talking about front-line caregiver," Ballou says, which means everyone from doctors and nurses to janitors, people who collect the bodies, and gravediggers.
While in Russellville, he stumbled into an AA meeting, stopped drinking and turned his life around.
