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You know when you go to a wedding and you're dreading who you have to sit with? I always felt like I constantly got stuck at the table with all the singles. And you're just sitting there, trying to make small talk over this enormous (table) centerpiece,

We don't have a specific proposal on the table yet, ... But I understand and share the American concerns, as I've said many times before.

We are actually using the news to dynamically generate this table of contents in real time.

We are playing a lot of different teams with various styles this spring. I think the spring schedule is going to help us a lot. We're not going to get caught up in wins and losses. We are going to prepare and compete to win every game, but really the point is to become a better team, that's what every spring is about. Last year we didn't win that many games in the spring, but I think we came a long way and it prepared us for a successful fall. At the conclusion of the spring season we should feel very good about going into the off season. I hope we make the same strides this spring that we made last year. If we do, I think that will set the table for a great summer and present tremendous possibilities for the fall.

The picketing is for informational purposes. We are, in fact, going to be back at the bargaining table in a couple of weeks, so a lot of the concerns they're expressing will be taken up at the bargaining table.

What we have on the table is a proposal and the union board will debate, discuss and vote on it within the next few weeks.

We are not going to return to the table until they change their attitude. This is a one day national strike, we will assess the situation and decide the way forward.

We had an offer on the table for some time to the North Koreans to come for a briefing on actions that we have taken in response to illicit financial activities. They have agreed to do that.

When they come up to you in person, it feels like a personal invite, rather than just a general sign. In Newcomb, people come up table to table and introduce themselves.

When you're sitting at a table with her, she's very charismatic, much like Bill Clinton. She's empathetic, passionate and intelligent.

Where else do you have a thousand-dollar item sitting on a table in a coffee shop?

We plan to finish far higher up the table than last year.

We have looked at everything on the table and cleared away what we don't need,

We still have a problem with vegetables. All he loves is pizza and chicken wings. His diet's got to be a lot better than that. We sit at the table until he eats his vegetables. I'll say, 'Well, I'll wait you out.' Literally, he'll sit there all night.

We actually ponder the depths and resilience of Chinese capacity, for example, when we sit around the table of the FOMC.

There are three proposals on the table and they have lots and lots of tools at their disposal. As intelligent individuals who have been elected by us -- and they asked for the job -- they ought to be able to reach a decision.

Time Warner Cable is pleased to provide an integrated solution to SAS. Being able to bring the local and national resources to the table gives our customers the security of working with one provider.

To use a poker analogy, if the deck is a bit stacked against you, spread the deck on the table and let everyone see the cards,

You look at the standings now with the top teams at the top of the table and you look at us in last place and I feel now there is not a big difference.

Today we are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest.

We would hope that all nurses and their representatives will put patient care first as we continue to negotiate in good faith. We would hope for compromise and good faith on both sides of the table instead of unilateral demands.

We basically said from day one that if the union doesn't accept this, if there is going to be any attempt to strip down their contract to change the ground rules from what they are used to, and they're not happy with it, then we'll pull our offer off the table at the end of the day,

The decision opens up the possibility, which was really off the table before, that the new management will re-examine the possibility of possibly partitioning the company, which we view as positive for the stock.

We want to bring everyone to the table with one goal in mind, to make the community better for kids,

The deal has been on the table for the last three or four weeks. It depends when the manufacturers want to sign.

The cook doesn't want to be locked away in the kitchen anymore. He or she wants to be around the guests. That means that kitchen appliances suddenly become like a sofa and table ? things that everybody is going to look at. I think it's a real indication of where we are in food culture today.

Well, the guy's had open-heart surgery, ... He laid on that table and had them cut him open. And everything else. And he's here playing football. That says something. You give the guy the benefit of the doubt that, hey, he's tough enough to do this.

We'll talk about how we protect them in case we all have to work in responding to these things. This is part of the countywide emergency response planning coming to the table with more and more of all the players.

We used a piece of metal, five by nine feet, from our truck for the table. We used bamboo for the net, put the table on the barrels and played in the jungle.

We understand that Serbs will be elected who will continue with the same policy to divide Bosnia, ... but we will have them around the table fighting with arguments instead of fighting with guns.

We should let the people of the Northwest decide the fate of Snake River salmon. This resolution is designed to take dam removal off the table before the public has a chance to weigh in. The Corps of Engineers is just about to release its five-year, $20 million study, but this resolution is trying to prejudge what should be a public decision.

We left Oxley's Table Land on the morning of the 31st of January, pursuing a northern course through the brush and across a large plain, moving parallel to the smaller hill, and keeping it upon our left.

We laid it out on the table for him, what his situation was, and to his credit, he's done everything he possibly could do to get back. He's bigger and stronger. We thought his weight was down last year, and it may have affected his velocity.

We have contacted 90 survivors, some from last year and new ones who joined us this year, and invited them to come and participate in this event. The survivors will also need to check in at their table between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. where they will receive their purple survivor's shirt and a Relay for Life t-shirt if they are on a team.

We're trying to lay everything on the table from a swing standpoint. From there, we create a program.

We call upon both the government and the LTTE to immediately come to the table and immediately discuss the cease-fire. Venue is not the central issue. The central issue is simply to come to table.

We call upon both the government and the L.T.T.E. to immediately come to the table and immediately discuss the ceasefire. Venue is not the central issue. The central issue is simply to come to table.

We ought to have a seat at the table so we can protect the interests of workers.

We were seated at a big table that displayed our books. Each author had to introduce ourselves and tell the audience what our books were about.

We were reflecting on the highlights of our trip, and she told me to see whether the train had arrived to start boarding. I returned to the table and beckoned for her to come on.

We were very nervous. Everyone on the table was kind of anxious to see what the results were. We're really fortunate to have this opportunity.

We were very nervous. Everyone at the table was anxious to see what the results were. It just depends on what poll you're looking at at the time ? some say you're in, some say you're not and some say that you're a bubble team.

We don't make a habit of going to guys and telling them to get out of (school), but when a guy comes to you and says he's ready to turn pro, you have to listen. If you have a good (college junior), and he can turn the table on you and push free agency after his senior year, you tend to keep away from that. Free agency tends to cost more money.

We are working with the parties on an hour-to-hour basis to do whatever possible to bring them back to the negotiating table in Geneva as soon as possible and to put a stop to this violence.

We can't predict the future, but we've said all along that those that settle earlier will do better than those that didn't come to the table at the appropriate time.

We are coming into a new phase. In this phase, we are calling for the international community to help us return to the negotiating table with the Israelis, conclude the peace process and implement it.

We are comfortable with the terms of the tentative agreement. And the reason that we're comfortable is not only does it not reward the employees for going on strike -- no matter how you spin it, none of the penalties are waived, mitigated, ameliorated or a blind eye cast to them -- the contract is cheaper and better for the MTA than what was on the table at the time the strike commenced.

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.

We will go to the negotiating table anytime if there are mature conditions for the six-party talks thanks to the concerted efforts of the parties concerned in the future,

There has to be a regular performance audit to do a comprehensive analysis to determine how the funds are performing. We can't come to the bargaining table with information that's six years old.

There has been a reevaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table

We sat around that table in the jury room, and it really gave us a lot of rehearsal time. A lot of stuff that we shot was really rehearsal stuff.

We're not just in the TV business anymore ... We're going to the table as a sports media company.

We think there has been a very good package on the table and we believe the DPRK needs to look very carefully,

We think there has been a very good package on the table and we believe the D.P.R.K. needs to look very carefully.

We're reeling. Everything is up on the table and we are going to be under this cloud for a while. For a long time, people have been so focused on earnings that corporate America realized that they can get away with playing games with the balance sheet, and now it's catching up with them.

We've definitely seen that trend. We have a line of wine that would be considered bargain wine, a table wine, that 15 years ago comprised 100 percent of our sales. Now more than 50 percent of our business comes from the higher priced segment of the market - 20 years ago it would have been nothing.

This time of bickering should be over, ... return immediately to the negotiating table without preconditions.

We had a bit of added pressure because of other results at the weekend but we've moved two places up the table and stood up to the challenge fantastically well.

To the extent it's an issue they want to discuss, they can bring it up and we'll study it. My sense is there's a deep satisfaction that the (64/65-team) symmetry and how it works now fits. We've never really talked about expansion or studied it the last several years. ... It's just not something that's been on the table in serious consideration.

While Greenspan has very well defined views on inflation targeting and asset price targeting, he took a step back and left them as issues on the table for the next chairman.

You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

The only thing they've put on the table is their elbows.

There are already many producers who are doing better than the national average but that is not to say they can't do exceptionally well. Our average born alive is just 10.7 when our major competitors in Europe are at least 1.5 pigs per litter better than that. It is not impossible to achieve significant improvement. Just four years ago the French were sixth in the European league table and now they are at the top. If they can do it, so can we.

When you have somebody who has his type of energy, who brings that to the table like he does, the potential is there to strike quickly like that.

There are all kinds of myths going on in the Italian culture, and the way they celebrate is through their food. It's the tradition of the table where the Italians celebrate most of their triumphs and successes.

We made a conscious decision to become more involved politically. It's kind of been an evolution of the process in which we recognized that not necessarily to get a seat at the table but to get someone's ear, to be able to be an influencer, if you would, to support candidates that support our objectives for our customers, that we were going to have to be more involved.

When you have a big game, the tendency is to have a down game the next day. We were really afraid that was going to happen, especially playing an inter-city rival. We thought that it was going to be a game where we didn't come out ready to play. We didn't get home until 11 last night. The table was set for us to have an off night.

What kept me at the table was the fact that they continued to be willing to go over and above (what they were asked to do).

We were talking, we had a table read or something, he said, "Jerry, how are you with horses?" I said, "I grew up with them all my life." He said, "Oh, that's great!" I said, "Yeah, they all had cops on them".

We've got the international break coming up, though, so hopefully all but Luque will be ready after that. I'll look forward to that because as a manager you want to have tough decisions to make. The team has been picking itself this season but with a fully fit squad then I'll be confident we can push up the table and get to an area in the table where we want to be.

With some of these tools, by the time I figured out what color blob I was looking at, it was just easier to look at a table -- I could get the information I needed faster that way. It gives you a lot of information, but it's like topography as opposed to a street map. In some cases the technology didn't help and didn't have the right type of navigation.

With some deals already on the table and others supposedly on the table, food company managers suddenly have a reason to have an open mind.

When we table a subject, we're not using it as a tool to make it go away. It's a tool we use to make more informed decisions.

We will have plenty of laughs as well as poignant moments. I think this year in particular -- not only due to world events, but also that there's a fresh crop of nominees and some people that are probably going to walk up there and win their first Emmy -- it sets the table for a pretty exciting show.

We are embarking on a new era, and we call on the international community to help us return to the negotiating table with the Israelis, to conclude a peace agreement and implement it.

The president looks across the cabinet table at the vice president and has to realize, 'The only reason he's there is in case I die.

Unfortunately, Canada's willingness to return to the bargaining table sends a conflicting message to Capitol Hill - namely that Ottawa is not serious about achieving free trade or insisting on the NAFTA dispute settlement process.

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.

Exxon has really been about discipline. What Exxon brings to the table is their balance sheet, the technical expertise, and their operational management and development. That's where they shine.

Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.

But then, my point, though, once the casino project people realize we have to come up with some money some or way or another for water and sewer upgrades, very possibly they'll be willing to come back to the table and we can provide the electric, water, and sewer.

But people who are coming in later aren't necessarily looking for that. They're looking to get something off their kitchen table or out of their office that has to be mailed. It's going to benefit everybody in the community, as well as businesses.

But Jed and Ben both stated to me that there was no deal on the table for me right now, and they felt pretty strongly that I wouldn't be traded any time anywhere in the near future. They couldn't guarantee me security for the lifetime of the contract.

Both sides have tried all alternatives - ranging from ignoring the other side (India), to the use of force (Pakistan), to the threat of the use of force (India again). Now both sides have run out of options other than to sit across the table and talk.

The good players and quirky personalities are certainly out there. It's like the 'World Series of Poker' -- no one would have thought that people want to watch a bunch of people sitting around a table playing cards, but it has become very popular.

The governor's intent is to bring sheriffs to the table and discuss the possible changes that might be made.

The governor is engaging in very clever politics. By introducing a massive infrastructure bond, freezing (higher education) tuition hikes, he is taking food off the Democrats' table in November. And in true 'Godfather' style, he's making them offers they can't refuse.

The governor did make, in our opinion, serious errors. His record in Texas is squarely on the table for the public.

We're impressed with all of our goalies. We like the way these guys have performed in the past and we feel they all bring different elements to the table because they all have different strengths and styles.

We're thrilled to be able to celebrate our boys basketball centennial by directly involving the fans, who have supported our tournament in great numbers throughout the years is a fun was to get folks interested in our rich history and set the table for a terrific celebration in 2007.

We need to give the taxpayers a seat at the table in this state.

To put that offer on the table for the next three months, it's clear to me that they're willing to steer the price lower, ... They really don't want every U.S. consumer to park their SUV and buy gasoline-electric hybrids -- they don't want to trigger that kind of consumer response.

While there are other initiatives that target increasing the adoption of the Linux desktop, the LSB subcommittee can bring to the table an industry effort with real meat that can further the technical capabilities of the Linux desktop. The more vendors that participate in this initiative the more successful this initiative will be.

We all had very musical upbringings. Everyone brings something to the table and everyone plays an equal role in making our music.

We all bring our unique skills and perspective to the table with g4 Productions. Together we are the complete package for any company or organization that wants to reach out to an active lifestyle demographic.

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

Tonight we set the table for going forward.

There is also an area with an inclined track where kids can build a kite then fly it around the room. The kids then take the kite home. We have a water table in the shape of a leaf where several kids can gather around with water toys and explore.