A pair of events in April 2006 sealed Prescott's political fate, however, and his profile within the Blair administration was greatly reduced.
When Mr. Obama arrived here on Monday evening and stepped into a grand ballroom of the Fontainebleau Hotel for a pair of events, he made his 26th fund-raising stop since taking office nine months ago.
Kevin Pearce, 22, of Norwich, Vt., was among many of the world's top snowboarders in Park City preparing for a pair of events next week at California's Mammoth Mountain, part of the five-event trials for the United States Olympic team.
According to him, it arises from the feeling of "determination" that is created in the mind when it experiences the first member of a pair of events that it is long accustomed to experiencing together.
Last Monday, as protests raged on Wall Street, fund-raising heavyweights made their way to a pair of events hosted by Johansson, with the unstated but implicit purpose of launching Stringer's campaign.
(Woolfe) 'How to Get Started' (Friday) Presented in collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival, the John Cage Trust and the Slought Foundation, this pair of events recreates a 1989 work by Cage, in which he extemporized on the contents of 10 shuffled note cards as his recorded voice, played back and altered, formed an increasingly complex accompaniment.
Sometime after 5 p.m., Mr. Obama is expected at a pair of events in the Flatiron neighborhood: A small dinner for 80 guests at ABC Kitchen, where tickets top out at $35,800 a person, and an elaborate gala for more than 900 supporters at ABC Carpet & Home, the furnishings store abutting the restaurant.
The first pair of events (a,b) can be simulated by issuing a hypercall.
Whether the other two pairs of events were similar is unclear.
The standard view, in short, holds that the causal relata are a pair of events.
