With this in mind, we requested a table for eight, which hopefully would allow sufficient opportunities for interesting dinner conversation.
He recalls a dinner conversation with Michael Dell a decade ago.
This was a fascinating story to get to cover -- and I found it became dinner conversation among friends in India -- curious to hear what I was finding.
So with the annual visit from the dude in the red suit almost upon us, I thought it would be fun to do another round of dinner conversation starters and brain stretchers.
The loss of trust began in the early 2000s when scandals like Enron and WorldCom became dinner table conversation.
Here's some ammunition for your next dinner party conversation: The possibility of a 1990's-style housing crash in Britain just became a bit more real.
"We'd balk if an employer said, 'I want to look at your photo albums once a week or listen in on your dinner party conversation, '" said Allie Bohm, an advocacy and policy strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union.
About ten years ago, I was sitting with him at a small dinner and the conversation turned to beer.
Is self-esteem a dinner-table conversation or a government issue?
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Obama raised the idea of a dinner during a phone conversation with Graham earlier this week and asked the South Carolina senator to put together the guest list, a White House official said.
Festo isn't quite the household name that Boston Dynamics is. (And, really, we're not entirely sure Big Dog is a regular topic of conversation at dinner tables yet.) But, it certainly deserves just as much attention for the work they're doing with robotics.
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Yet anybody with a blog or a social-networking page is effectively treating it as a gigantic electronic dinner party, in which conversation is free and informal, friends can keep track of each other's most mundane experiences and any thoughts that take one's fancy can be instantly shared with anybody else who owns a computer.
While Carter was at dinner, Robbins struck up a conversation with several of his Secret Service men.
The dinner went seamlessly as they had wonderful conversation and became friends.
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Investigators believe Freudenberg engaged in an extensive text conversation with a colleague about dinner plans while he was conducting mandatory pre-flight checks of his helicopter.
He declines conversation, and dismisses the chicken dinner she's prepared, saying he's a vegetarian.
Like the dinner scene in Runaway, he acknowledges the conversation, turns his back on it, and celebrates himself and his phoenix.
One evening we enjoy a lively conversation over an 11-course dinner with wine pairings, a meal that I recall as quite pleasant.
We were just having this conversation at home last night at dinner. (Laughter.) If they can deliver a monologue up on stage with all the grandeur that goes along with what you do, then maybe they can make a presentation in front of the classroom on something not so dramatic.
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Guests seated next to each other should have something in common, whether it is a hobby or home state, to spark conversation at the beginning. (Ms. Fierro typically introduces seatmates to each other at casual cocktails before dinner.) While she says she enjoys intellectual conversation at the table, she's wary of heated debates.
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After dinner on that balmy September evening Landau and Letelier continued their conversation as they walked out of the house.
But at a recent dinner party I attended, it was Goldman that was the topic of conversation.
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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Ms. MURRAY: When my husband I went out to dinner, I had the thought that we were supposed to adopt from Russia, and kind of having a conversation with myself, saying, no, you know, it's expensive, I--you know, we want a baby and what have you.
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