The Sheriff gathered eight or nine aides around a big table in his office.
In one room 12 residents sit around a big table silently staring at their tablet computers.
Saul Griffith restlessly taps his bare feet beneath a big table cluttered with books and models of wings and inflatable helmets.
When a packet is received the router reads its intended destination, looks it up in a big table and forwards it to the next router.
Naturally it is a lot harder to sit around a table and applaud a big creative breakthrough and a lot easier to present and agree on ideas that already exist because the chance of group ridicule is smaller.
"The secretary is not planning to put a big plan on the table, " state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, stressing the trip was a "listening tour".
The key here is that with rates going lower, contagion came off the table in a big hurry.
The oak - which had a huge hollow trunk said to big enough to seat six people at a table - had become a local attraction for walkers and visitors in recent years.
It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).
But in the process, Microsoft is leaving a big pile of money on the table.
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's Turnstone division, for example, recently introduced the "Big Table, " a large standing-height table designed for quick meetings.
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Waller's Icon Healthcare Fund has profited with a big position in these firms (see table).
"I like to put it on a big tray, bring it to the table and everyone picks from the dish, " he says.
As such, they will be assured of a chance at big time bowl payouts if they run the table in subsequent seasons.
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The men tolerated each other and ate supper together on a card table set on the creaking floor of the big dining room.
And then just quickly on the Nuclear Posture Review -- what is your response to criticism from some who are saying that it just makes the United States less safe by taking a big -- the possibility of nuclear deterrent off the table?
In my house, every night at dinner we have a big piece of paper that we put on our dining room table as our tablecloth and we doodle.
Three defeats in their opening four games left Leinster near the foot of the table but as many predicted, they pulled out a big performance against their Irish rivals.
As the UAW heads to the bargaining table with the big three automakers this week, a separate team of negotiators is gearing up for tough contract talks with the Detroit casinos on the 30th.
Valencia finished third in the table for the third season in a row, while big-spending Malaga, owned by Qatari Abdullah bin Nasser bin Abdullah Al Ahmed Al Thani, clinched the fourth and final European Champions League qualifying spot.
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Meanwhile, TCU joined the Big East to ensure inclusion of a BCS bowl game should they run the table in future years.
You went to the table for your election district, signed in, went to a big old steel mechanical voting machine made in Jamestown, New York, pulled a big lever, set small levers for all the candidates you wanted, pulled the big lever back, and were done.
"A stock with gains this big leave people wondering when to take their money off the table, " Bachman said.
Third on the roster and marked as "highly unlikely" is a purchase of MetroPCS. The carrier was bitterly opposed to the T-Mo merger and pouted at the idea of purchasing some of Big Blue's divested assets, so if those two met around a table, they'd have a lot of awkward apologizing to do.
Wynn is a big player in the ultra-high-end market, with more revenue per gaming table than competitors.
During practice Xu wore a big smile and a T-shirt emblazoned with the devastating slogan "The King of Table Tennis".
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This acquisition follows a wave of consolidation in biotechnology, as larger companies try to sit at the big pharma table and smaller ones seek shelter from the vicissitudes of the stock market.
Since then, Germany has become a big provider of peacekeeping troops, with 7, 706 now spread over a dozen missions (see table).
The issue of how big government can be and how we pay for it is on the table, and a resolution needs to be hammered out, soon.
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