In early September, an International Expert Conference on Cell Phones and Health convened in Washington, D.C., to examine the issue.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, stranded in California by the storm, convened a phone conference with bank regulators to plan for assessing damage on Wall Street and preventing major issues from derailing trading.
The group's next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 26, but analysts expect OPEC members to talk by phone or convene shortly to authorize a production cut.
Wessel brings this dereliction to life by reconstructing scenes like one in March 2008, when Geithner, then chief of the Fed's New York outpost, convened a 4 45 a.m. phone conference with Bernanke, Paulson and a crew of other officials.
A secret "court" for the secret world of surveillance, it can, at just about any time, be convened and conducted via cell phone by the NSA or FBI.
But here in Chicago, where some 17,000 cable companies and vendors, entertainment powerhouses and regulators have convened, executives predicted that their lead over phone industry competitors would be insurmountable because they had invested earlier in the Internet access strategy.
In addition to in-person and phone interviews, a two-day expert group meeting was convened by the Decades of Vaccines Collaboration in October 2012.
According to the story, "after Spicer became aware that information had leaked out of a planning meeting with about a dozen of his communication staffers," he convened an "emergency meeting" at which he ordered his staffers to relinquish their phones for a "phone check," a move that would definitely root out the amateur leakers in his midst.
Geithner had a Fed team working on A.I.G., and at midnight he convened the team, some of whose members were participating by phone from Washington.
He convened a battle council of top advisers; set Vice-President Hubert Humphrey phoning mayors to pressure resistant hospitals; and deployed hundreds of inspectors to make sure that participating hospitals integrated their wards.
