After inspecting the outbuildings, he drove six dusty miles to the town of Poxley, where he bought, on time, a bed, some chairs, a couple of tables, and a dinette set.
Everybody was standing and I thought Argonne -- one of the effects of the sequester, you had to -- (laughter) -- get rid of chairs. (Applause.) That's good, I'm glad we've got some chairs.
"We had to buy some bigger chairs and life jackets, " says Marc Langevin, the hotel's general manager.
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My next time in the corner (yes, there are some comfortable chairs nearby), I talked with Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the former prime minister of Portugal.
Out for the visitor to look at (but not to sit on, alas) are Maloof's first sofa and some early chairs flagrantly Danish in inspiration, but lithe and lovely in walnut, maple and the occasional exotic hardwood and the prototype home-office furniture he fashioned for industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss.
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In Cookstown, County Tyrone, they placed their chairs some distance away from the rest of the council.
As a result, some compensation committee chairs are adding to their planning agendas a discussion about whether and how to link compensation strategy to succession planning activities, even if succession planning is under the purview of the full board.
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While I acknowledge that there is plenty of blame to go around and that some compensation committee chairs are actually very good at what they do, I, too, share the opinion that compensation committee chairs in general could stand to raise their game.
This generation has added Western chairs, some Italian leather, and custom-made futons, thick and plush and in some rooms placed on platforms in the Western style.
It would shuffle the deck chairs in some pretty interesting ways.
One leading fund manager said to me that he feared that if the threshold for success was 75%, as some have suggested, company chairs would have to spend all their time working through the minutiae of company pay policy with shareholders, and too little time setting the wealth-creating strategy of their companies.
Warren himself remarked it was "like the old days" as the posse of journalists - some long lost - jostled for chairs in the hotel conference room.
Similar legal provisions kept lifts for wheel-chairs from being provided on some buses without triggering a requirement that they be provided on all busses.
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Its complex of 11 factories on 500, 000 square meters an hour's drive from its Shanghai headquarters churns out some 30, 000 strollers, baby chairs, car seats, bicycles, tricycles and cribs a day.
Contestants routinely burst from the ring to grab chairs from the audience (typically some 5, 000 chanting fans) with which to smash their opponents.
Some of the workers don't sit on chairs but instead perch on gigantic inflated silver beach balls.
"We haven't had a review of the ferries for quite some time, " said Councillor Liam Robinson, who chairs Merseytravel.
At Holyrood, some detect the influence of Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick, who chairs the business bureau.
Now, if you guys have chairs, feel free to sit down -- some of you do.
Fancy fans, pretty parasols and wicker chairs, for example, are a far cry from some of the poster-plastered, traveller souvenir filled, iPad-littered rooms of the 21st Century.
The shallow hole was surrounded by salvaged chairs and shaded by a blue canvas canopy they had stolen from some resort because property was always already theft and anyway they had really wanted a canopy.
"Water companies are making higher profits than expected and they need to give some of this back to their customers, " said Dame Yve Buckland, who chairs the watchdog.
Some of the most successful old (or old-ish) lags have taken the chairs of select committees.
The panel then went into a public session and discussed other sites for a new school that previously had been ruled out, which upset some of the nearly 90 people who packed the meeting room, which had only about 25 chairs.
Paul Bettison, who chairs the LGA's environment board, told the BBC food scrap collections might help reduce some of the smells caused by fortnightly waste collections.
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