Arizona

Music was playing. A spectacular full moon hung overhead. It was like the setting for a Western," says Beverly Turner Clark, meeting planner for New York Life Asset Management in Parsippany, N.J. Clark is describing the scene of the outdoor cookout she planned for 60 of the company's upper and middle managers during a meeting at Tucson's Westin La Paloma Resort last October. She took full advantage of La Paloma's distinctive desert location to arrange for many on-site events. After several