Scarlet Letter: 2001

As I roamed the annual meeting of the Professional Convention Management Association last month in Miami Beach, the "A" word just wouldn't go away - no not that A word! The other A word, the one that seemed to haunt a lot of other people at the meeting. Of course I am talking about attrition - isn't everybody? I mean people were bulging out of legal eagle John Foster's seminar "Attrition Clauses: What's Fair? What's Enforceable?" I thought he was giving out ice cream and cake or trips to