| Believing one of every 10 happy-talk words that the leaders utter about their confabs would seem to be the appropriate discount rate. |
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| But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs. |
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| For companies like Cott, the ceremony presents the opportunity for an all-day binge of TV, analyst confabs, and shrimp bowls. |
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| They might be the product of his confabs with the management luminaries of the European game at a forum in Geneva a week past on Friday. |
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| If ever there was a time when confabs on the future of the entertainment biz are relevant, this is it. |
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| At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done. |
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| They hold endless meetings, planning sessions, conferences, and confabs in which they back pat and self-stroke themselves with awards, plaques, tributes and testimonials. |
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| However, the tapped confabs gave investigators an inadvertent window on apparently shady dealings of an entirely different nature. |
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| Alliances that frayed or hot products that take longer than expected to reach primetime linger on the minds of everyone who has been at a few of these confabs. |
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| You can blame it all on Tales of the Cocktail, the granddaddy of all such sodden confabs. |
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| But I read a lot of liberal stuff and have attended more than a few college confabs with liberal speakers speaking on the subject of liberalism itself. |
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| Throughout the day, Laurie confabs with entertainment bigwigs, at times working outside, via cell phone, so she can deadhead her roses while juggling a long list of projects. |
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| Now that the boom has bust and the dust has settled in the last three years, some people are testing the waters at day-trading seminars and industry confabs. |
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