The attendance at these decisive meetings, however, is largely in the hands of district election commissions that have been set up in almost complete secrecy.

Ten years ago, Bonn was also the site of a decisive meeting about what would happen to Afghanistan after America invaded.

Mr. Weinberger, however, does not detail a decisive meeting on Sept. 9, 1981, at which he made his case for arms increases before the President.

It was his interest in contemporary music that led to a decisive meeting with John Cage in 1960.

These shifts were, at least in part, prompted by brief though decisive meetings with famous men.

The decisive meeting will be here Saturday night.

Important though this visit was as a political signpost, a far more decisive meeting was to follow.

You cannot use your absence from a decisive meeting to ignore its decision, Toric,' Groghe said.

"It is not going be a decisive meeting, but part of the process to prevent the widening of the war."

After all, the decisive meeting of the Board of Governors is coming up in mid-April.