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  • The investigative phases of these municipal investigations also provided the first intimate portrait of the so-called kitchen-table gun dealers who have flooded the inner cities with a seemingly endless supply of weapons.

    Outgunned PETER HARRY BROWN DANIEL G. ABEL 2003

  • The investigative phases of these municipal investigations also provided the first intimate portrait of the so-called kitchen-table gun dealers who have flooded the inner cities with a seemingly endless supply of weapons.

    Outgunned PETER HARRY BROWN DANIEL G. ABEL 2003

  • Ord and Young, sitting across from me in their favourite Oxford cafe – where the money for the homemade mince pies on the counter goes straight into a collection for the homeless – say their "kitchen-table operation" has already ballooned beyond expectations.

    The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving 2011

  • Wil Wheaton is leading a kitchen-table game of Dungeons and Dragons with his teenaged son and some of his son's friends, and documenting the campaign in his blog.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • That's Twitter's USP: your kitchen-table banter, broadcast to the world.

    Being PC in this day and age 2012

  • Conventional wisdom about faith and politics usually and falsely divides "values voters" motivated by opposition to abortion and gay marriage from an electorate focused on kitchen-table issues like jobs and taxes.

    Rev. Jennifer Butler: A New Values Debate For 2012 Rev. Jennifer Butler 2011

  • The sad thing, though, is that since the economy is high on everybody's radar (as it seems to be in every national election), the story that gets filtered through to the media is that moms are worried only about those kitchen-table issues.

    Joanne Bamberger: Five Things Politicians Shouldn't Forget About Women Voters on Election Day Joanne Bamberger 2010

  • Conventional wisdom about faith and politics usually and falsely divides "values voters" motivated by opposition to abortion and gay marriage from an electorate focused on kitchen-table issues like jobs and taxes.

    Rev. Jennifer Butler: A New Values Debate For 2012 Rev. Jennifer Butler 2011

  • Instead of trumpeting the punch lines, the members of the cast underplay their dialogue, which loses its slickness and becomes as believable—and as stingingly hurtful—as a kitchen-table spat.

    The 'Follies' of Our Dreams Terry Teachout 2011

  • And thousands of NGOs sprang forth, mostly tiny mom-and-pop, kitchen-table operations, largely unregulated and often receiving funds from overseas donors eager to assist in the growth of Chinese civil society.

    China's crackdown on nonprofit groups prompts new fears among activists 2010

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