Viewed from the highest level, the real and reflected figures streaming in all directions in the red depths of the lower atrium resembled Saruman's orcs toiling in the caverns of Isengard.
"There is now a firm consensus view at the highest level that Russia must make its own economic and security decisions," says a Swedish-born investor, Peter Castenfeld, who has worked closely with successive Russian governments, including Putin's.
Though their talents and personalities are different, Mr. Gates said, "we have a common view at the highest level of what the company needs to do to succeed: hire great people, make big bets and take the long view and be patient where we think there are the greatest opportunities".
In the past few days, top officials in China and the U.S. have been quoted in unusually colorful terms about one another, revealing — either wittingly or unwittingly, depending on the point of view — mutual perceptions that can shed light on views at the highest levels.
Purporting to reflect the views of the highest levels of the Pakistani government, it asked for American help in reining in the army, humiliated by the bin Laden episode and possibly contemplating a coup.
As chief scientific adviser I have met a large number and wide range of young researchers in the United Kingdom and overseas, and I have tried to inject their views into the highest levels of government (for example, in a seminar with Tony Blair at No. 10 and on other such occasions), occasionally through face-to-face meetings, and more often indirectly.
Baron said the meeting was a constructive opportunity to share views at the highest levels of the Justice Department.
Minutes from the March meeting of the Fed's rate-setting committee revealed that some members of the panel viewed "the high level of student debt" as a risk to aggregate household spending over the next three years, posing a downside risk to economic growth.
Some members of the Fed's rate-setting committee said in March that they viewed "the high level of student debt" as a risk to aggregate household spending over the next three years, posing a downside risk to economic growth, according to meeting minutes.
In that view, the high level expression of type I interferon and interferon-inducible genes would reflect an active but insufficient effort of the innate immune system to control a more primary inflammatory process.
