Brisk, well-informed staff zip between tables, helping first-time visitors sort out their Jeruzalem-made white wines from their hearty karst teran reds.
This sort of meticulous, first-time data collection is spawning entire service industries.
The Sun Inn is the sort of traditional boozer that first-time visitors to England may have imagined only existed in films, with the added attraction of plentiful fresh seafood, like scampi and chips on offer.
The first sort resulted in above-average short- and long-term share performance, the second in prolonged under-performance.
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There is a national predilection of boomers to demand midlife happiness, even if it means they chuck a good portion of the first part of their sort-of eternally vowed adulthood.
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Frankly, we don't buy the PR line: it's not sustainable for Intel to constantly "give away" their machines, so the payoff is inevitably going to be some sort of lock-in by getting there first.
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Still, however painful, this is not the same sort of bubble as the first internet boom-and-bust.
None of them is planning the sort of keen pricing that Egg and first-e, two Internet banks, are using to woo customers online.
There is also something to be said about nostalgia, as wearing clothes from another period can be a sort of escape from contemporary stresses for twenty-first century Americans.
The first of these sort of nation-binding, everyone knowing where they were at the same time events was when George Washington died, and the nation went on for months of mourning.
As the sort of people who are on a first-name basis with librarians, historians and English professors, historians are thrilled to hold a new book, to crack the binding and break it in like a new pair of shoes.
Many of those attending said that Mr Obama's election and big-spending, deficit-expanding first year had been a sort of negative epiphany.
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And I think Iowa and New Hampshire, all those states that used - are used to going first, sort of a vanity fear, they're going to lose all of that status because going first just doesn't have the same power anymore.
We should demand more from our video games, even if the violence therein is often little more than a frenetic sort of puzzle-solving, and we should demand more from those who make our games in the first place, as well as from gamers whose often overly knee-jerk reaction to this sort of thing only helps to make level-headed conversation impossible.
China's offer of money to help sort out South-East Asia's financial problems was a first and one that people in the region have begun to contrast, however mistakenly, with what they see as America's aloofness from their problems.
"The last thing people want is long lists of particle names - one's got to relate it to the bigger picture, and I think today is sort of a milestone in that picture - it's the first time that we've seen anything in Bs mesons, " Prof Parkes told BBC News.
"It was a trivial incident - I told her to try and sort it out for herself first of all, and she did, " he says.
McCartney's efforts have received the backing of one of Team GB's leading lights, the nation's first Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins -- sort of.
Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty and Mr Romney have all been first-rate governors: they can claim the sort of hands-on experience of government that Mr Obama so signally lacked in 2008.
Military officers and diplomats in mid-career were sent there to sort out simulated conflicts, from the first explosion of violence to the passing of resolutions in the Security Council and the imposition of a ceasefire.
These weren't the sort of questions you set up yourself--say, the name of your first pet.
First, the Pacers (32-21) are the sort of hard-nosed team the Knicks would be poised to meet in a second-round playoff series.
Until now, the ocean primarily was divvied up in a sort of "free-for-all" in which "whoever gets there first gets the access, " he said.
If you cast your net too widely, you risk getting one-time customers, and businesses of this sort dont make money on the first sale.
Under the law, generic manufacturers got a sort of junior patent if they were the first to challenge, a 180-day exclusive period to sell competing versions of a drug after they won their challenge and got set up for manufacturing.
But in the hands of the first-time director, Arne Glimcher, it becomes the worst sort of varnished kitsch.
Chelsea made the sort of start that was beyond even their wildest dreams - scoring three times inside the first 20 minutes.
Consider a few factors that will preclude the sort of hasty pull-out Washington's armchair generals are promising the public: First, every piece of equipment and machinery has to packed and cleaned.
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