's Turnstone division, for example, recently introduced the "Big Table, " a large standing-height table designed for quick meetings.
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This acquisition follows a wave of consolidation in biotechnology, as larger companies try to sit at the big pharma table and smaller ones seek shelter from the vicissitudes of the stock market.
While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.
As the UAW heads to the bargaining table with the big three automakers this week, a separate team of negotiators is gearing up for tough contract talks with the Detroit casinos on the 30th.
Is the United States sufficiently internationalist in outlook to be ready for a global regime of the world economy in which we're not guaranteed to be Mr. Big at the table all the time setting the rules?
"The secretary is not planning to put a big plan on the table, " state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, stressing the trip was a "listening tour".
The key here is that with rates going lower, contagion came off the table in a big hurry.
But in the process, Microsoft is leaving a big pile of money on the table.
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When a packet is received the router reads its intended destination, looks it up in a big table and forwards it to the next router.
When it comes to sticking it to the other guy in order to make big money for their side of the bargaining table, these people clearly have no equals.
The market for virtualization was big and growing and EMC brought much to the table.
It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).
And then just quickly on the Nuclear Posture Review -- what is your response to criticism from some who are saying that it just makes the United States less safe by taking a big -- the possibility of nuclear deterrent off the table?
Three defeats in their opening four games left Leinster near the foot of the table but as many predicted, they pulled out a big performance against their Irish rivals.
With the hoopla and pizazz of the big Disney Infinity launch event behind us and all the details on the table we have a clearer picture of what Disney Infinity has to offer families.
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His tenure at Manchester United provides the clearest demonstration that in the big business with diminishing returns that is the top of the Premier League table, money allows a club to compete for the titles but it is the manager that enables the club to win them repeatedly.
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The men tolerated each other and ate supper together on a card table set on the creaking floor of the big dining room.
The issue of how big government can be and how we pay for it is on the table, and a resolution needs to be hammered out, soon.
"I like to put it on a big tray, bring it to the table and everyone picks from the dish, " he says.
The table above reporting results of the big six Japanese banking groups for the period April-December 2010 is from the February 8, 2011 Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
He started his new London agency, the Red Brick Road, with five former colleagues, including three from Lowe London who left big year-end bonuses on the table to join Lowe, 66, before the end of 2005.
The Sheriff gathered eight or nine aides around a big table in his office.
As such, they will be assured of a chance at big time bowl payouts if they run the table in subsequent seasons.
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But look more closely at the big new ideas in the draft text on the table and it becomes apparent that they have very little to do with enlargement.
Some argue that even if the Broncos run the table they should not be in the BCS Championship game over 1-loss SEC, Big 12, or Big 10 teams who face more difficult schedules.
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Some of Buffett's other big holdings and some new additions are listed in the following table.
Now salt is back on the table as states such as California green-light big solar thermal power projects to meet ambitious renewable energy mandates.
"A stock with gains this big leave people wondering when to take their money off the table, " Bachman said.
Valencia finished third in the table for the third season in a row, while big-spending Malaga, owned by Qatari Abdullah bin Nasser bin Abdullah Al Ahmed Al Thani, clinched the fourth and final European Champions League qualifying spot.
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Meanwhile, TCU joined the Big East to ensure inclusion of a BCS bowl game should they run the table in future years.
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