1.   The meeting came amidst renewed United States pressure for reductions in world interest rates.

2.   The meeting came within days of separate proposals by each of them for sweeping new reductions in nuclear weapons.

3.   The meeting comes on a day when the roads minister announced improvements to reduce noise impact.

4.   The meeting comes on the day that Kenneth Carlisle announced measures to reduce traffic noise.

5.   The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub.

6.   And then comes a meeting of the minds, the millions, the limos.

7.   But a combination of chilling rains and blistering winds seemed to keep most protesters off the streets as the summit meeting came to a close Sunday afternoon.

8.   But that meeting came to nothing.