Bellagio: The horse race screens are separated from the sports area, they have comfy easy chairs, free flowing drinks, and a small bar area with tables.

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Restricted largely to a setting of conference rooms in second-rank hotels, they take pains to notice whether the chairs are leather or Naugahyde, and whether the curtains are clean.

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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.

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"They're using them because their children are sick, and they want to do something, " says Daniel Frattarelli, who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on drugs.

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Antique tables and chairs fill the rest of the space, giving readers more room to spread out what they are studying than to turn around.

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The real stars of the Big Ten are coaches who sit so rarely that their seats could be electric chairs and they'd live to yell another day.

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