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• Boeing's McNerney: 'Digging Out of a Hole'
Boeing lodged an appeal and has held several press conferences promoting its argument for overturning the award. But while Northrop CEO Ronald Sugar has been out on the hustings talking up his company's work, McNerney has been publicly silent ...
• Senate Republicans kill pay disparity bill
The vote sparked dueling news conferences Wednesday in which leaders of both parties accused each other of playing politics with key voting blocs in a year when the presidency, every House seat and a third in the Senate are on the ballot. Democratic ...
• Groups Speak Out Before Bell Verdict Delivered
Union did hold news conferences outside the courthouse during the trial, as did advocates for Bell?s family. Meanwhile, other rallies and vigils are planned for this week, all continuing to 9 a.m. Friday when Cooperman delivers his ruling from the ...
• Pakistan urged to free missing detainees
Amina Janjua, wife of a Pakistani businessman allegedly detained in 2005, said the group plans to hold a series of conferences to raise awareness of the illegal detentions. "All the people arrested here regarding the war on terror _ it is because of ...
• Drug companies to disclose spending practices 
WASHINGTON - For years, the nation's largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to exotic locales and sponsoring the educational conferences that physicians attend. Those financial ties in most ...

» Copenhagen+5 / Review of the Social Development Summit - Providing information on the UN social development process, the 5 year review of the Copenhagen Summit (Geneva, June 2000) and encouraging stakeholders to get involved.
» People Site - Web site of an annual youth meeting on minority issues called the Minority Course. For young Europeans active in NGOs. Includes debateforums, chat, mediapresentations, articles and NGO database.


» Youth at the Millennium - A dialogue between youth and elders on subjects such as green economics, democracy, peace, and spirituality. (May 8, 2003)
» Playing By the Rules: Video Games and Cultural Policy - The University of Chicago Cultural Policy Center has assembled scholars of policy, education, law, and the arts along with experts from the nonprofit and corporate sectors to discuss the social impact of video games and ways of encouraging innovation and development in positive social directions. (October 26, 2001)
» WohnWandel. Conference - Scenarios and options for the future of housing. (Mannheim, Germany) (May 21, 2001)
» Critical Resistance Northeast Regional Conference - Gathering of activists and community members formed to address the rapid growth of prisons which led to the hyper-incarceration of primarily poor and working class people of color. (New York City) (March 9, 2001)
» Conservative Political Action Conference - Annual convention for conservative activists started in 1973. Sponsored by the American Conservative Union, Young America's Foundation, and Human Events newsweekly. (February 15, 2001)
» Forum 2000 - Forum 2000 in the year 2000 will already be the fourth conference in Prague to deal with humanity?s hopes and risks at the turn of the millennium. (October 9, 2000)
» Computers, Freedom and Privacy - The Tenth conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (April 4, 2000)