Meanwhile, a small, separate army of volunteers worked setting up tables and grilling stations.
As part of the push to protect students from being bombarded with card solicitations while they head to class, the law prevents issuers from setting up tables on campus.
People are scarce on the streets until the early evening, when street vendors gather in clutches, setting up tables and unpacking boxes that will duly transform into hustling and bustling stalls.
"The last two years, we have had a band and encourage large tables to break up the tables for two, " he says.
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Chairs are broken up by tables with water and chocolate for people in attendance, and there's a rounded stage with a massive projection behind it.
Aspiring candidates put on long white aprons, line up behind tables full of flickering Sterno, and dish out issues and arguments to fatten the voters.
James Whiting, deputy head of Chiswick Community School in west London, said it was unfair to accuse schools of bumping up league tables with vocational qualifications.
After privatising chunks of east German industry, Goldman Sachs shot up league tables as it persuaded more and more German executives that it could serve them better than their old house banks.
The bosses of banks that suffered devastating losses, such as UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland, were generally more interested in striking deals and leaping up league tables than in rooting out danger.
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"We'll miss our friends and home in the Hamptons, but figured that by leaving, it opens up valuable tables at Nick and Toni's and the American Hotel, " jokes Mr. Sonnenfeld, referring to the East Hampton restaurant and Sag Harbor hotel, respectively.
And that means a restaurant owner can bust down a wall and set up some more tables.
But the new curriculum will make sure that by the age eight or nine, pupils will know tables up to 12.
He admits that as academies and other schools are turned round, and surge up the league tables, vocational equivalents often play a major role.
In recent years, the Japanese have watched as its South Korean rivals, Samsung and LG, have crept up the league tables to second and fifth place.
She picked up her times tables very quickly and she was able to handle numbers that you wouldn't think a child of that age would be able to.
Small, lovely garden out back and well-spaced tables up front.
The question, of course, is whether Mr Wasserstein is more interested in pushing Lazard up the league tables in preparation for a sale than in stable, long-term profits for the bank from loyal clients.
The draft primary curriculum for maths, due to be introduced in schools next year, contains plans for pupils to memorise their times tables up to 12 by age nine, multiply and divide fractions by age 11, as well as learn topics such as geometry, long division and multiplication and decimals.
Having jumped up the European league tables in fixed income, the investment bank is now expanding in equities and in Asia.
In my local Starbucks, for example, a recent renovation brought an army of teeny-weeny tables lined up in formation against the longest wall.
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In the city of nonstop glitz, nobody questioned the idea of two tables going up and down, offering eight "flights" a night, she says.
They have even been known to get up from their community dining tables to participate in an impromptu electric slide.
Bartenders get each drink started at the butcher block bar area, then do the rest at guests' tables for an up-close experience.
As the chauffeur navigated the wide sedan down the narrow streets, I pulled down one of the veneered picnic tables and set up my mobile office.
Participating restaurants offer up a fixed number of tables per night, making VillageVines a tool for them to move unused inventory without lowering prices across the board, as Gilt does with designer clothing companies.
And although I only have word-of-mouth information on his trapeze abilities, and a picture of his tree climbing, I actually got to witness his ability to walk on his hands, starting from a sitting position on the floor where he was positioned alongside the many tables set-up at the awards banquet, he was able to pull himself up into a handstand, and walk on his hands.
To make matters worse, many pension schemes have yet to catch up with previous adjustments to mortality tables.
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It's like walking into a scene from Goodfellas - the crowd seated at candlelit tables, suited-up waiting staff distributing Old Fashioneds, the band on stage playing whipsmart swing and jazz.
But after that, baseball's wheelers and dealers might as well belly up to one of the nearby casino tables--it's that much of a crapshoot.
The picnic tables have a pop-up vanity.
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