Mr Byers has learnt quickly that he has drawn the shortest of ministerial straws.
"You sell a couple hundred straws, you see where the money is being made, " Talley said.
More recently, Talley had 400 straws collected from Asteroid, the runner-up bull of the year for 2011.
Groups should head to a booth and order a Scorpion, a giant fishbowl of a cocktail served with multiple straws.
Another popular beverage is coconut water, sucked from straws poking out of coconuts, tops hacked off expertly with machetes when ordered.
"When you ask me is this clutching at straws, we have to do what we are doing, " said Delaney.
That may seem like a bargain compared to what some owners are getting for straws from their best bulls.
EPIC, he argues, is "grasping at straws" in its conflict of Internet accusations.
So, two straws in the wind, pointing to the possibility of a new business model for quality journalism online.
But consider the following straws in the wind, starting with defaults and ratings.
Four percent of its sales come from the Asia-Pacific region, where it manufactures straws and plastic containers for food-service operations.
For one such miniature, of an irregular log climbing frame for the Washington school, Mr. Heuken's team used straws and pins.
The nanotech buzz grew louder in the early 1990s as scientists discovered "carbon nanotubes, " soda straws of carbon just one or two nanometers wide.
Police seem certain of that but say they're "grasping at straws" for other evidence that might help them find the 25-year-old cashier.
Yarns made of the tiny straws of carbon called nanotubes have an astounding ability to twist as they contract, scientists have found.
On most nights, especially on weekends, you will find throngs of beautiful people sipping colourful cocktails through long straws, while dance beats pulsate in the background.
For foreign investors waiting for straws in the wind, it became a symbolic issue, though investment flows into retailing are unlikely to be huge.
The breeze picks up, eddying ticket stubs and wrappers and waxed paper and brown bags and plastic straws and whatever else has been left behind.
There are a few camel-back-breaking straws lingering that are expected to develop further now that the world is no longer hypnotized by our presidential election.
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Ponting had mused at the start of the game that Flintoff's retirement might become a distraction for England, but we knew he was clutching at straws.
These are wrapped in carbon nanotubes - tiny "straws" of pure carbon that are renowned for their electrical properties - and coated with a platinum black powder.
The other is that these firms have lost out in the marketplace and are now desperately grasping at straws and trying to get the politicians to save them.
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National Security Council staffers seemed powerless to do anything significant, grasping at straws about how to implement impactful information and communication campaigns that would make a difference around the world.
If you have a family like mine where both parents want to attend the same conferences, you may resort to drawing straws to determine who gets to go or face a huge babysitting bill.
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There are straws of sanity in the wind.
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As the story unfolds, basically everyone in the colonial-era town is at the town center for a giant drawing of straws to select a family, and then from the family, a particular person chosen for the lottery.
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Or I could be grasping at straws.
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