The CBI Scotland chief was making the calls at a business dinner in Inverness.
Another area that IHOP would like to reinforce is its lunch and dinner business.
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With great fondness he recalls one conversation with a colleague, after a long successful day of business golf and dinner at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.
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The Secretary-General later attended a dinner with business leaders hosted by the UN Foundation.
General Assembly, more government business, tennis, dinner with the family, a planning meeting with his aides and then, at last, some private time.
"We eat dinner with the business books piled around us, " she says.
Your brother-in-law writes off a family dinner as a business expense.
Can you talk about tonight's dinner with the business leaders?
From an early age, he discussed business with his family over the dinner table.
Sunaina and Sanveer were exposed to retail from a young age, with talk at the dinner table revolving around business.
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In fact, the only moments where they really have time talk about their business issues are when they are eating dinner or lying in bed!
The thousands of guests invited every year to dinner parties, cocktails, business lunches, even serious diplomatic negotiations, find themselves in a handsome setting that is grand yet warm.
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The highly garrulous Kalra, 35, recalls getting regular dinner invitations to the houses of prospective business partners in Mumbai and New Delhi.
The intimate gathering at Casa Mun, which Chef Mun Kim and his business partner opened in March, felt like a dinner party among friends.
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"Eleven of the global volume manufacturers have bases here, backed by 19 of the world's top 20 suppliers, " Business Secretary Vince Cable said last year during a dinner arranged by industry body SMMT.
But the cost of a nice glass of wine at the company dinner or a cocktail while out with your business colleagues would be deductible so long as it meets all of the other tests.
On Wednesday night, post dinner, I met the Dean of the Said Business school in Oxford.
Meanwhile, Huong and Nana finished their dinner, knowing that one of them would have business to take care of.
The lemon square turns into acceptance of a dinner invitation and next thing you know, your business relationship is compromised by your personal relationship.
Meanwhile at the same CBI dinner, Helen Alexander, president of the the business group, said public services should be "re-engineered" to help tackle the huge deficit.
Gates and 100 other powerful women from business, politics and non-profit organizations also attended a dinner at the elegant Hotel Schatzalp on Friday evening to discuss ways to reduce maternal mortality.
But until the dust settles downtown, when it comes time to make deals, do lunch (or dinner) and bed down for the night, business travellers will likely head to stylish west side haunts in Beverly Hills, Century City, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.
Couples are still welcome, but so are colleagues getting a business lunch, girlfriends catching up over a quick mid-week dinner, families enjoying a relaxed weekend brunch, and diners grabbing supper for one at the bar.
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Presenting the award to him at the Plaza Hotel was American billionaire Ted Forstmann, also a dinner chair for the event, which was sponsored by the Business Council for International Understanding.
The U.S.-Asean Business Council said it and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will host a dinner for Mr. Thein Sein in Washington next Monday night.
She was the Saturday evening dinner keynote speaker at the India Today Conclave , a gathering of political and business leaders that took place in New Delhi Friday and Saturday.
Paulsen appeared the day after the dinner, exiting an elevator at the Waldorf without entourage or fuss, dressed in a business suit even on a Sunday.
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Later, over dinner, the startup CEO made a critical mistake: He forgot that this was a business interaction, and a time to project the right aura about himself and his inventions.
Annabelle Gurwitch, who hosted "Dinner and a Movie" on TBS from 1996 to 2002, had at least one show business firing that would have made most people look for a new career.
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