Word: gathering
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...Princess Diana alone during her final public appearance. She was joined by more than a million people in central London who lined the route of her funeral procession; by the 2,000 mourners inside Westminster Abbey who had been invited to attend her funeral service. Tens of thousands more gathered along roadsides to say farewell as she was driven roughly 70 miles northwest of London to Althorp, her family's ancestral home. And across the earth's 24 time zones, hundreds of millions interrupted their waking or sleeping schedules to gather around television sets...
...real families," the group said in its announcement, "participating in a great American tradition on the White House lawn, rather than protesting from the sidelines." The activists plan to wear coordinated T-shirts to make an impact in television footage. If they are denied access, they plan to "gather together as a group as close to the media as possible to share our story," the group says in an advisory to potential participants...
...police commissioner whose department responded to the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks discussed balancing counterterrorism policing and democratic ideals with two other panelists at the Institute of Politics last night. New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the NYPD seeks to “gather intelligence and deploy resources” to combat terrorism, while also making an effort to “protect the civil liberties of our citizens.” Kelly joined Nick Hardwick, the chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which handles complaints against police in England and Wales...
Fitzsimmons says “99 percent” of the communication between the FDO and admissions is to gather information to better advise current undergraduates...
...teaches them to be grateful. In his gentle voice, he asks them to stop living in a "me centered" world and start living in an "other centered" one. It's the kind of talk that would be right at home in a Buddhist monastery, but Rao's disciples gather in another kind of temple: business school...