(It is true we already knew the basics, but the details earned the governor a nice press conference).
"To those who never get out of their nice, expensive conference rooms, it was like, The sooner Enron died, the better; let's just shoot another 1,000 people and be done with it,'" Cooper says.
Many want nothing at all – not even a nice seat at conference for the leader's speech or an invite to a special event – and are content to give unconditionally.
A systematic search of seven databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CDSR, NHSEED, HTA, DARE, EconLit) as well as research registers, the NICE website and conference proceedings was conducted in July 2012.
"Sure, we picked out a nice office with a conference room and people working away.
Come to think of it, that's a nice word for a conference of global leaders, with all its connotations of lofty heights and glorious achievement.
Although, despite the obvious set-up (away from home, nice hotel, free booze), conferences are, in my experience, the most unromantic places on Earth.
LobbyBlog wanted to know: Do these conferences at nice resorts attract representatives from any of the 100-plus special interests that reported lobbying the Federal Reserve system in the past year?
As Joschka Fischer, a former foreign minister, jokes, "it's nice to go to a conference of 'young leaders', but you don't want a conference of 'junge Führer'".
Although the boxers played nice at Wednesday's news conference, tension boiled over two days later at the weigh-in.
