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  • Top negotiators for the league and the players union met for nearly five hours Monday in what the deputy commissioner Adam Silver described as a table-setting exercise.

    NYT > Home Page By HOWARD BECK 2011

  • And here I was, with dreary and endless vistas before me of table-setting, potato-peeling, and dish-washing.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • That's where the table-setting tailback trio could spark a championship run the way "The Triplets" — Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman, surefire Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith and Hall of Fame wideout Michael Irvin — keyed the franchise's three Super Bowl titles in the early 1990s.

    With T.O. gone, time for Tony Romo to shine for Cowboys 2009

  • He ascribed the Kelly memo to "realistic table-setting in advance of the next round of labor negotiations."

    Rivals Invade Southwest's Air Space Susan Carey 2011

  • So the way Iowa sets the table for New Hampshire is highly important, and the Paul factor will be central to the table-setting.

    Paul Could Lead From Behind Gerald F. Seib 2011

  • The book, though easily my favorite in the series, was really just table-setting for the big finale, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which will rightly I think, since it's like a billion pages long be split into two flicks.

    My review of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Reel Fanatic 2009

  • The book, though easily my favorite in the series, was really just table-setting for the big finale, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which will rightly I think, since it's like a billion pages long be split into two flicks.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Reel Fanatic 2009

  • We swap them back to the correct place, my companion NJR whispering: “Perhaps table-setting comes in year three.”

    Very Tasty, Very Brizzle 2009

  • Representation of a mid-late 19th-century dinner table-setting at the Suna and Inan Kirac Kaleici Museum, Antalya.

    Ceramic Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

  • Today's special lunch, laissez-faire table-setting aside, was all for the occasion of "because we feel like it".

    Archive 2007-01-01 Shaun 2007

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  • “The woman who is fresh from reading Gauss and Pindar, and who has taken sides in the discussion between the adherents of Roscher and of Mill, cannot easily content herself with the petty economies that result from doing her own cutting and fitting and dusting and table-setting.”

    --Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

    November 7, 2011