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.
's Turnstone division, for example, recently introduced the "Big Table, " a large standing-height table designed for quick meetings.
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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.
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.
Is the United States sufficiently internationalist in outlook to be ready for a global regime of the world economy in which we're not guaranteed to be Mr. Big at the table all the time setting the rules?
While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.
"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.
In the private equity business that kind of return doesn't happen very often, especially with figures as big as these (see table).
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.
But in the process, Microsoft is leaving a big pile of money on the table.
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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.
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).
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.
He started his new London agency, the Red Brick Road, with five former colleagues, including three from Lowe London who left big year-end bonuses on the table to join Lowe, 66, before the end of 2005.
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 table above reporting results of the big six Japanese banking groups for the period April-December 2010 is from the February 8, 2011 Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
When it comes to sticking it to the other guy in order to make big money for their side of the bargaining table, these people clearly have no equals.
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.
While his comments may have been a bit off base, his outlook that managers like him had been given very little shot at big clubs after overwhelming success with mid-table darlings was spot on.
The market for virtualization was big and growing and EMC brought much to the table.
But look more closely at the big new ideas in the draft text on the table and it becomes apparent that they have very little to do with enlargement.
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?
Some of Buffett's other big holdings and some new additions are listed in the following table.
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