Motioning to Cranston, the commissioner invited his friend to join him.

In fact, the high commissioners in Japan, Europe, and Panama invited BSA to send commissioned Scout executives to help create a program for Americans living overseas.

Major League Baseball owners and players may yet erupt in one of their typical labor wars, but for now they are maintaining a tone so civil that for the first time ever, a commissioner has invited a union leader to address the club owners.

The commissioner had invited Cranston to attend a hearing that concerned the attempted Melrue jewel robbery.

For now, Mrs. Whitman's commissioner of health and senior services, Christine Grant, has invited the New Jersey Restaurant Association, which represents 1,000 of the state's 10,000 licensed retail food vendors, to discuss voluntary restraints.

When Philip Corboy, 69, a Chicago lawyer, married Mary A. Dempsey, 41, a corporate lawyer and commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, a year and a half ago, the couple invited just 50 people to the wedding Mass and limited their reception at the Drake Hotel to 270 people.

In Florida, the commissioners of Bay County, dissatisfied with the way the sheriff's office ran the county jail, invited outsiders to bid for the job.

In a display called "Sustainable Metamorphoses," the commissioner, Françoise-Hélène Jorda, invited three five-member teams to imagine through futuristic models how a depressed neighborhood outside Paris could look in 2014, 2034 and 2064.

Concluding, the commissioner invited his friend Cranston to go along to Melbrun's office.