After a few rounds at ABC, the foosball table makes for a fine diversion.

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Instead of spending money on camps and summer travel, her family will invest in a foosball table.

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Three of the camps I saw had outdoor soccer fields, and various camps also had foosball, table-tennis, and aerobic exercise equipment.

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On the other side was a bar, which boasted Foosball, air hockey, darts, a rabbit, and two parrots named Jacot and Lolotte.

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There the Lost Boys can learn English, conduct job searches, play foosball and, most importantly, share their experiences in a comfortable environment.

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If you asked Americans to rank the most important sports to them, table tennis might come in somewhere a little above foosball or bumper pool.

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The historically leaky U.S. defense displayed the organization of a foosball table as the players hurled their bodies in front of every open Italian shot they could get to.

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James Stanley, a New York-based designer, says he recently did a pop-art-themed penthouse for a wealthy bachelor in Manhattan that has a flame-red living room with foosball and pool tables and a "Star Wars"-themed bedroom room.

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Beyond the obvious inducements of wearing jeans to work and playing the occasional game of foosball, former finance professionals said they wanted an environment in which decisions could be made without vetting by several layers of bureaucracy.

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But the Uber offices themselves have the usual Silicon Valley accouterments as I walk with Mr. Kalanick to a cluttered conference room, we pass a game room with a Foosball table, a Pepsi-stocked fridge and two tapped beer kegs.

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