Article: Brides and grooms sit at tables listening to music during a communal...

Article: Afghan grooms sit on chairs during their mass marriage ceremony...
Getty Images;  August 18, 2008 ;     108 words ...REZA SHIRMOHAMMADI Getty Images 08-18-2008 Afghan grooms sit on chairs during their mass marriage ceremony... Full Size JPG (1875 KB) Afghan grooms sit on chairs during their mass marriage ceremony in Herat on August 17, 2008. About 50 Afghan couples...

Article: Fourth-graders learn to measure
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  March 17, 2008 ;     197 words ...JAY - Fourth-graders stood around two shop tables listening to high school teacher Dan Lemieux explain different increments of measure on a 1-inch portion of a ruler. Their focus was on how...

Article: Political opportunity is knocking.(Perspective)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 8, 2006 ;     567 words ......Legion hall in a solidly Republican suburb of Albany. About 80 people, in groups of six or more, sat politely at round tables listening to Republican John Faso make his case to lead New York, in the first of his series of town hall meetings around the state...

Article: Hamas Holds Mass Wedding in Gaza City
Getty Images;  August 5, 2005 ;     160 words ...Spencer Platt Getty Images 08-05-2005 GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - AUGUST 05: Grooms sit with young relatives posing as brides on stage during a mass wedding organized by the Palestinian party Hamas August 5, 2005 in...

Article: Marry go round the dais
New Straits Times;  February 1, 2003 ;     512 words ......Erra Fazira, Juliana Banos, Hairie Othman, Salleh Yaakob, Syanie Hisham A PELAMIN (decorated dais) where Malay brides and grooms sit for the bersanding (sitting in state) ceremony may seem an unlikely centrepiece for a Malay film, but it makes for an entertaining...

Article: For DWI Offenders, an Alternative Road to Treatment; No-Nonsense Program Hailed as Model of Success Now Faces Enrollment Decline
The Washington Post;  July 29, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Five newcomers, some of them still shaky, hunched over lunchroom tables, listening to a no-nonsense security guard fire off the rules they would have to follow for the next four weeks. "You have to go to class...

Article: MTT, SF Symphony and Lemper to redefine cabaret
Oakland Tribune;  June 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ...THE musical picture that the word "cabaret" calls to mind involves a smoky room packed with people crowded around tiny tables, listening to a sexy singer moaning out a sad, sardonic song that wafts like a wounded bird through the stale air. She, or he, is...

Article: PRINCIPAL LESSON: MANAGING THEIR TIME; AT PRINCIPALS ACADEMY, SCHOOL LEADERS LEARN TO DELEGATE, CONCENTRATE ON INSTRUCTION.(Local)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  December 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Paul Riede Staff writer In a large downtown room last week, 40 principals and 20 other school administrators sat at tables listening to speaker Joanne Quinn talk about change. Somewhere near the back of the room, a cellphone rang, and rang again. Several...

Article: Rethinking Philadelphia: Make the Ben Franklin Parkway a People Magnet.
Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  June 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Jun. 15--Just imagine how our Parkway should look: Swarming with people shopping at kiosks, munching on tapas at outdoor tables, listening to the music coming from a small bandstand. People listening to an outdoor reading near the library, then buying that book...

Article: FIONAKIDMAN.
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  February 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ...DAME Fiona Kidman writes in the first volume of her memoir, At the End of Darwin Road, of the 1960s, of sitting at kitchen tables, listening as people told long, intimate stories about their lives. I listened and told less about my own . Now here we are in her...

Article: Start Of School Year A Delicate Time.
Monitor (McAllen, TX);  August 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ......De Leon Middle School classroom. The poster lets students know what is expected of them as they sit at their laboratory tables listening to lectures and working on small experiments. The rules are typical of many other classrooms: no talking, raise a hand...

Article: Remembrance of things pasta Compared to St. Patrick's, St. Joseph's Day is a pretty obscure holiday- which makes it all the more fun.(L&E, Suburban Life & Entertainment)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 6, 2008 ;     437 words ......church basement. The lively scene inside made a huge impression on me. Hundreds of people dressed in red crowded around tables listening to a festive band. Parish ladies mounded pasta, frittata, salads and breaded fried vegetables on our plates. The ladies...

Article: Down-to-earth training for the wild, blue yonder.
Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......elite forces stronger. Five of the instructors -- four retired Special Operations troops and one on active duty -- sat at tables, listening. They live around Hulbert Field in the Florida Panhandle, near Fort Walton Beach, where they prepare future combat controllers...

Article: Charities to seduce volunteers at speed-dating style event
Derby Evening Telegraph;  March 30, 2009 ;     396 words ......recruitment evening. People attending the speed-volunteering event, at Spondon Village Hall, will work their way around the tables listening to the pitches. During that time, they can ask questions about volunteering - deciding whether or not the organisation...