The association convened an emergency board meeting, consulted with lawyers and called other dairy trade groups.

The day before the talks resume, the players' association will convene a meeting of its executive council at the Mayflower, the same site as the negotiations.

Ms. Kahn said that when the association first convened a support group for patients with memory disorders several years ago, she and a colleague, who were leading the group, feared to even mention Alzheimer's disease.

His association, he points out, convened the "town meeting" of 5,000 New Yorkers at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center that unified the public's dismay over the initial World Trade Center rebuilding schemes.

The association first convened in the 1960s, as interest increased in the new science of modern linguistics and particularly in its practical application - for example, in language teaching and learning.

A year ago, as a measure of the growing interest in the game among entrepreneurs and developers, Mr. Irish's association convened a separate miniature-golf committee.

"I've been appointed to advise you that the building's homeowners' association convened earlier today and voted unanimously that you ... that they ..." "What?"

The association also convened the first national symposium of Jewish community service professionals, drawing 300 caseworkers, vocational counselors, psychologists and other professionals to a the three-day meeting, which ended yesterday at the Manhattan headquarters of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.

Last year for the first time, the association convened a committee to discuss environmental guidelines for the spa industry.