Yet they have no specific agenda for change and seem almost nihilistic at times.
There appeared to be reasonable consensus that the Dalai Lama is not traveling to the US with a specific agenda for this meeting.
Mr. Bloomberg, a businessman, has so far focused more on a general touting of his own management skills than a specific agenda for rebuilding and balancing the budget.
He said he has no specific agenda for Fordham but wanted to develop one communally with Fordham's students, faculty members, staff members and alumni.
By law, the new president must conduct a review of the nation's nuclear posture, and Mr. Gates's address could be viewed as advocating a specific agenda for the next occupant of the White House.
He said that it is too early to have a specific agenda for Cornell, but that he hopes to continue to focus on public service and transnational issues, which he believes already have an important place at the university.
Instead of expending political energy on this issue prematurely, the administration should work with other nations to set a specific agenda for trade talks -- and even begin negotiating some of the details -- all of which can be done without fast-track authority.
The coalition plans national conferences this year to establish a specific agenda for change and to enlist the help of other important groups, including the leaders of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, whose new president, Myles Brand, has been an outspoken proponent of fundamental change in intercollegiate athletics.
A lot of older civil rights leaders and black politicians have been frustrated with President Obama for not advancing a specific agenda for his fellow black Americans, a grievance that seems not to bother many younger African-Americans, for whom the civil rights movement is a chapter in a history text, rather than a searing memory.
Daft Punk approached Columbia with a specific agenda for the campaign; Rob Stringer of the label recalled that the duo had showed him the book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip as an example of what they wanted.
