"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".
He grew up hearing the same dinner-table conversations about lipstick market share and department store displays as his elder brother William, who's now president of Clinique Laboratories.
But he demanded "serious and urgent round table talks" between head teachers, the Department for Education, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to work out a way of giving sport greater prominence on the school timetable.
That secretariat becomes the seed of the next U.N. mandate, department or initiative, with the next suite of tax proposals on the table.
As rumors began to circulate in recent weeks that the Department of Justice had rejected the union, Ergen came back to the table and offered to give up some of his satellite spectrum for use by satellite-TV competitors.
He brings a lot of experience to the table both as an academic and through his service in the Treasury Department of this administration, the Labor Department of the Clinton administration.
"If you take ordination off the table, in the U.S. our statistics are better than the Department of Labor when it comes to women in executive positions, " Walsh said.
The room with the smelling table includes a museum staffer whose hawking of the fragrances is little different from a department-store floor-walker's.
The second in command from Homeland Security, the Justice Department, the FBI, NCTC and the office of the director of national intelligence sat at the small conference table.
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Hicks -- praised by Republicans as a "whistleblower" -- was joined at the witness table by Eric Nordstrom, a former regional security officer in Libya, and Mark Thompson, the State Department's acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism.
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