Proverbial Pie (or Heightened Security) Previous shareholder meetings have not required attendees to R.S.V.P. or register.
Cruz's events in Texas, sponsored by the conservative group Concerned Veterans for America, require attendees to register first.
In Burlington, a liberal college town, Trump staffers were eagle-eyed at the door, requiring attendees to take loyalty pledges to enter.
She gave her name only as Jules; Roommates Wanted does not require attendees to provide last names, phone numbers or addresses.
This required attendees to have a laptop capable of running MacOS or Linux and to have substantial proficiency with Unix programming environments.
This year's agenda, gathered under the theme of "Taking Responsibility for Tough Choices," required attendees to consider topics as wide-ranging as world trade, pollution, poverty, globalization, American leadership, Islam and the Middle East, China's meteoric economic ascent, corporate governance, AIDS and other health care issues, financial corruption and weapons of mass destruction.
The questions stemmed from Mr. Gore's attendance at a luncheon at a Buddhist monastery near Los Angeles in 1996; his presence at a number of White House coffees in 1995 and 1996, which may or may not have required attendees to contribute to the Democratic Party; and his use of his White House office to make fund-raising telephone calls.
Now, with his schedule freed up and faced with the need to raise more than $200 million for the general election, Mr. Obama's major fund-raisers are eager to have him back to headline events that require attendees at the highest echelons to contribute more than $30,000 a person to a joint fund-raising committee for the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Users will be able to enter details for their events, communicate them with their contacts via e-mail and an optional custom homepage, and receive payments for events that require attendees to pay in advance.
Most music festivals still require attendees to bring cash with them or be charged for taking money out from ATMs on the festival site to then be forced to exchange these funds for tokens, that are sold in bulk and cannot be refunded if not used.
