51.   For the first time, they said, Assad sat with the Americans and his own negotiators around a conference table, encouraging discussion and making notes.

52.   For those gathered around a small conference table, a large monitor works well.

53.   For diplomats who spend their lives around conference tables, it is a pointed reminder that some chairs are more equal than others.

54.   Generally the sketches are generated by a writer working alone at his Macintosh computer or by the entire ensemble gathered around a conference table.

55.   Gathered around a conference table, they talked openly about the discrimination they had suffered.

56.   Gathered around the conference table are attorneys, brokers, a financial consultant, marketing people and, of course, the CEO.

57.   Harold Hayes sat right beside Barbara at the long dark-wooded conference table during the arbitration.

58.   Hampton and Zimmerman sit at the historic old conference table, now in its new home, and try to explain their situation.

59.   He and the executive were holding their own meeting, under the conference table.

60.   He sits at the head of a long conference table.