Dozens of rocking chairs adorn front porches where diners idle while waiting for tables and others chew on toothpicks and bask in the afterglow of a plate of biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak or similar country-themed cuisine.
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He learned, for example, than when tables for two are set with small votive candles, "it makes you want to lean in and talk softly, " he said.
McNally discovered his talent for turning tables in his mid-twenties, while working as an oyster shucker in New York.
He said using scores instead of grades would also mean changes to how secondary schools in England are measured for league tables.
Farmers "boast of causing shortages and don't care about making the food that Argentine families need for their tables more expensive, " it added.
But the implications of this had, to date, "not been well-presented to government, nor have issues of measurement error and the implications these have for performance tables".
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It also says the EBC, with its planned focus on depth of knowledge and longer essays, will not be a reliable indicator for league tables, because of the subjectivity involved in marking such exams.
But for some freight, from Formula One racing cars stuck in China after Sunday's Grand Prix there to flowers farmed in Kenya and destined for restaurant tables in London, there is no alternative route.
The watchdog appears to question whether it is possible to have an exam which can provide reliable data for league tables and which at the same time is capable of being taken and passed by teenagers of all abilities.
And like a Hollywood actor waiting for his big break, he waited tables for 20 years prior to becoming board game famous.
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But music exams, for example in violin or piano, are to be counted in the tables for the first time.
There have even been concerns about the results for tests taken by 14 year olds this year, which are to be included in performance tables for the first time.
They created a special roped off zone for sitting, allowing more tables to be open for shoppers who wanted warm tilapia, not hot dates.
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After cocktails, over 650 guests were seated for dinner at tables whose centerpieces were plasma balls.
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Suffolk has dropped into the bottom 10 in the government's league tables for state school GCSE results.
Bartenders get each drink started at the butcher block bar area, then do the rest at guests' tables for an up-close experience.
Merrill Lynch set great store on coming top of the league tables for structuring collateralised-debt obligations during the boom years.
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The climate here is similar to that shown by the tables for Aswan in Egypt or Biskra and In Salah in Algeria.
And he warned against a narrow focus on league tables for schools.
"The last two years, we have had a band and encourage large tables to break up the tables for two, " he says.
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GDP, and short-cut measures from the Penn World Tables for another 5.5%.
From Columbus came food for the neighborhood tables -- from Molinari's big new deli, and Caligari's bakery on Green, just off the Avenue.
But when it pushes back the tables for a weekend dance party, it attracts all kinds -- as long as they have the money.
It is the headline measure for school league tables in England.
The website also features tables for council performance, assembled using toughened assessment that rated just 14 councils as excellent, while 11 share the lowest rating of poor.
Shin and the other kids return to the tables for two more hours of practice, following their dreams in China's national sport, one shot at a time.
Parent Nicky Arresti has three children who attended The Latymer School in north London, a selective school, which topped the league tables for the new value-added measures.
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