We are seeing a slow, but it seems inexorable, move in North America in many industries to a stakeholder model where the shareholder is the first among equals but not the only person at the table.
"You've got the pharmaceutical industry and the largest group representing seniors in this country, who 16 years ago weren't at the table but were on the other side of the political debate, " Gibbs said of groups expressing support Monday for health care reform.
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And I think if you step back and look at some of the significance of today's events -- you've got the pharmaceutical industry and the largest group representing seniors in this country, who 16 years ago weren't at the table but were on the other side of the political debate.
Yes, offline marketing and advertising, i.e. direct mail, will always have a place at the advertising and marketing table but make no mistake about it, seated at the head of the table, is digital marketing.
Caesar swings through the house, leaping up and down stairs and throwing himself in and out of the attic, but he sits quietly at the dinner table, too.
There is a four-team scrap for the three remaining spots in the Champions League for next season, but the real drama is at the bottom of the table, where several teams could still be relegated by falling to 18th place in the 20-team Premier League.
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McBride and Fraser were appointed in mid-June but the the side has struggled at the foot of the table all season.
Dimitar Berbatov's 16th-minute goal looked to have paved the way for United to turn up the pressure on pacesetters Chelsea at the top of the table - but Everton had other ideas as they took another major scalp to emphasise their recent improvement.
They were serving themselves, using the tongs, learning manners, having conversation -- not with real sentences or anything -- (laughter) -- but all the expression that goes along with sitting at the table and having a glass of milk and passing the food.
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He was a great player but he did one thing at the table which was interesting.
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But thinking of us sitting at the table, phones in hand, does make me wonder whether Arthur was really so wrong to want to disconnect from everyone for a few hours a day.
For example, a somewhat aggressive team salary cap, coupled with a higher minimum salary for players and revenue sharing that redistributes money from large-market teams to small-market teams, may be in the interest of a majority of owners and players, but would be unacceptable to the folks at the table.
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The University of Indiana grad is every inch the litigation pro, down to his perfectly tailored suits and the polite, but intense, way he stares across the table at an inquisitor.
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The defeat is likely to see Glamorgan replaced at the top of the table by Sussex, but they are 17 points ahead of third-placed Gloucestershire.
You might get lucky now and then, but the math just kills your bankroll the longer you sit at the table.
Sexton was unable to convert but the victory moves Leinster clear at the top of the Pool Six table with next weekend's crunch clash with London Irish, who play the Scarlets on Sunday, still to come.
This is a very complex problem to fix, but at least the issues are on the table.
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Sure, the new equity owners will have seats at the table, but you are still ultimately in control.
But while Mr Miller sat at the summit table on Thursday night, a group of parliamentarians from his Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) met in Warsaw and agreed to break away and form a new party.
Mike Newell's Hartlepool, who spent a lengthy period of the season leading the table, have to settle for second spot but at least have the consolation of promotion.
That means the situation at the top of the table is as tight as ever but with one game less to play.
Alliances like that have more often failed when tried in the past in tech, but on the other hand, there are very few spaces available at the executive table.
The Magpies have a five-point lead at the top of the table with 14 games to play but Nolan says it will be business as usual until promotion is secured.
"It's absurd, but that was the level of greed at the table, " Pavlo says.
The surly, handsomest youth, bent over the table at the far left, looks uninterested in anything but his money.
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But soon he is sitting at the long wood table, staring at the lake and creating the music for his records.
It makes it nearly impossible for people who have legitimate but bridgeable differences to sit down at the same table and hash things out.
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For a while he picked beans at a truck farm on the city outskirts, making little money but guaranteeing that the family would have at least one thing on the table at suppertime.
Nelson enjoyed a morale-boosting win on Easter Monday at Silsden, but face a difficult game away at Maine Road, who are eighth in the table.
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