21.   As the two sides sat on opposite sides of a glossy walnut conference table, Boies leaned forward and looked directly at Neukom.

22.   At a recent meeting, six lesbians and four gay men sat chatting around a conference table while their children played together in another room.

23.   At his first meeting with the EcoTarium building committee, he brought out a photograph of the architect and placed it on the conference table.

24.   Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke then embarked on many weeks of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at bringing the warring parties to the conference table.

25.   At the hearing, the disciplinary board sat at one end of a conference table, with the accuser and the accused on the other.

26.   At the moment he is flicking specks of dust from his immaculate black conference table and chatting on the speakerphone with his corporate shrink.

27.   At his first media gathering, Showalter watched as one, two, three TV stations positioned their microphones on the conference table in front of him.

28.   Ballots were piled at the end of a long conference table at the National Mediation Board in Washington.

29.   Both Paris and Bonn contend that the single currency will be the cement of a politically integrated Europe finally speaking with one voice at international conference tables.

30.   A conference table and a wall divider articulate the space, along with fabric cocoons into which team members can retreat for a sense of fetal bliss.