They are excellent networkers and great opportunists, always in touch with events.
The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, cancelled a trip to California to stay in touch with events.
Lyne asks him how he kept in touch with events out there.
The royal family, apparently out of touch with events, remained for a whole week at Balmoral.
"Yesterday was a terrifying situation in Latakia," said Mr. Ziadeh, who said he had stayed in close touch with events in Syria.
He writes, stays in touch with events in Russia and vanishes now and again on mysterious trips whose purpose he declines to explain.
We're working to reduce disruptions and minimise the impact of these financial market developments on the broader economy". The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, cancelled a trip to California to stay in touch with events.
One of the most contentious issues in the discussions at the conference was the role of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the opposition group formed in August 2011 and viewed by its foreign backers in recent months as increasingly ineffectual and out of touch with events on the ground in Syria.
At best, Pentagon insiders say, he will be judged to have been badly out of touch with events occurring a 10-minute helicopter ride away from his headquarters; at worst, he may be found to have contributed, by lack of oversight or assent, to harsh interrogation techniques or to a climate that encouraged the extraction of intelligence at any cost.
Although he left to do legal work in New York in 1991, he remained closely in touch with events in Serbia, and in September 1993, at the invitation of the poet Joseph Brodsky, joined some 100 public figures in signing an open letter to President Bill Clinton calling for limited air strikes against Serbian military targets, to impair Belgrade's involvement in Bosnia.
