And why not, many will ask, after the extraordinary video of the Tory co-treasurer offering to sell access to the prime minister's private dinner table and his policy unit.
Travel arrangements are handled by an associate, Nasos Bampalis, who'll find the helicopter, the private jet, the table at the Athens restaurant of the moment.
While the environmental group is given a seat at the negotiating table, private property owners and other affected residents are not given the opportunity to object to these settlements.
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His audience: 14 elegantly dressed guests seated at a "chef's table" in a private dining room with a fireplace.
Natalie Biondolillo, private eye, sits at a table and compares notes with fellow investigator Henry McCoy on a person they're trying to locate.
Dining by candlelight at the huge octagonal table in the Wheelhouse private dining room or in the eaves of the thatch is the perfect coda to one of the Yorkshire Food Finder trails, which are putting the moreish back into the moors.
Steven Begleiter, who used to head corporate strategy at Bear Stearns and now works at a private equity firm, made the final table at the main event in 2009.
However, the use of privatized forces on the modern battlefield far out paces their previous employment, and the capabilities that the private security industry now brings to the table marks a watershed in the conduct of military operations.
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After he gave a speech last week to CEOs at a Washington hotel, he lingered for nearly an hour for private discussions with the corporate leaders, moving table to table, said someone who was at the gathering.
And after he gave a speech last week to CEOs at a hotel in Washington, he lingered for nearly an hour to engage in private discussions with the corporate leaders, moving table to table, according to someone who was at the gathering.
Private business did not have a seat at the table, and has suffered as a result ever since.
More than a dozen other states exempt some annual dollar amount of seniors' income--from private pensions, IRAs and sometimes other nonwage sources (see table).
And we think that this opportunity, this initiative, gives us a way of being able to have a real public-private partnership, where workers and employers can be at the table, where we can actually bring our resources together and think about how we get from where we are today to the 21st century as quickly as possible.
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The lesson to private creditors from Germany, the IMF and others at the negotiating table last night would seem to be that things are getting back to normal, and that normality cannot just mean that stock markets and bond prices continue to go up.
He said at his school, sixth form teachers looked at pupils' personal statements in their "breaks and rare free periods", while he knew of private schools where senior members of staff were taken off the time table "to do nothing else" but help students polish up their forms.
They argue, reasonably enough, that it is wrong to expect unionists to share a cabinet table with Sinn Fein if the republicans are still backed by a private army.
Separately, private-equity firm Silver Lake hasn't taken its offer off the table and would be open to interacting with Mr. Thompson to understand his vision for Yahoo and assess ways to work together, a person familiar with the matter said.
For an economy that will need tens of billions of dollars in capital, there is a huge incentive for private and state-owned enterprises to clean up their acts, (see table).
At first glance, investing in a private equity fund looks like a good deal as investors get a seat at the table with institutional investors like pension funds.
So that's why today I am so pleased to be joined by the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation and the Partnership for a Healthier America to announce a major agreement on the part of the private sector corporations to improve the nutrition of the food that we put on the table or that we grab on the run.
Because the private sector has shrunk, many families depend upon a pension or public-sector wage to put bread on the table.
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