"You'd have to be an idiot to believe that," he told a questioner during a meeting of American newspaper editors.

"My secretary dutifully came in to tell me during a meeting," said the architect, who has been a friend of Mr. Lambert's for 18 years.

The business had been unable to rebound from Silicon Valley's dot-com bust, he told the employees during a brief meeting before shutting the doors.

Diplomats said Iraqis had told envoys from nonaligned countries on the Security Council during a meeting this morning that Baghdad was prepared to start negotiating.

At times the lines all but write themselves: "I was only 18," Ginevra tells Zelda during a meeting in Chicago in 1933.

He's my manager", third baseman Michael Young told team mates during a meeting where Washington informed the players of his failed drug test.

LaBour told Bailey during a pre-show meeting that he had made the whole thing up.

Riley has not been pleased with the Knicks' intensity, and he told the team as much during a meeting before Sunday's practice.

"We don't want to encourage greater protectionism abroad," he told Mr. Becker during a meeting of the export council.

"Philosophically, we're just in a different world," the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, told the governor during a public meeting on Thursday.