There were a lot of high-school students and sitting at our table was a director from the company.

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At the other end of the table nationally was another County Durham school - Ferryhill Comprehensive.

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Also on the table are Republican-favored education proposals like school vouchers, character education and charter schools.

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The old-school hustlers were left with no leverage at the negotiating table with the owners of capital, while at the same time being at their mercy, instead of at the mercy of Wild West nature.

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Try as they may, the investigators may never know what happened to a talented table-tennis player who proudly held his trophies in school pictures.

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Young players are looking for "real-life camaraderie, " said Mr. Sokolski, a grade-school teacher from Petawawa, Ontario, and the president of the Ontario Table Hockey Association.

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Part of the reason for that was that it was accepted that a teenage girl would want to protect her virginity--so most sexual acts could be left off the table when it came to high school dating.

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Deepak Malhotra is a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond.

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