After a three-hour product demo, the Microsoft team took Ross out to lunch and offered to buy her company.
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In one anecdote, a woman doing business in the Middle East was taken out to lunch by a customer.
"Then I relaxed a little, went out to lunch, started telling stories while drinking beer" with a friend, a cancer epidemiologist.
He and mum would go for a drive in it most days, out to lunch or to the countryside, enjoying their retirement together.
She often took the other members out to lunch or for ice cream and would shop at the mall or grocery store, Sellors said.
After, a reward can be to go up and thank them, take them out to lunch, give some form of recognition after the fact, companywide.
Here's the thing, though: Watson never gets invited out to lunch.
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"When you see Mr. Hassoun on these tapes, all you can think of is that this guy is really out to lunch, " Gettleman told the courtroom.
Some employees are even reluctant even to go out to lunch with co-workers for fear of being overheard talking about Goldman, said one person familiar with the matter.
How ironic that on the subject of food production and security, the British Peer of the Realm gets it right, while the Berkeley food icon is out to lunch.
Depending on the boss and the company, it was a day for taking assistant out to lunch, giving them gifts or just thanking them for all their hard work throughout the year.
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Thiesfeldt recalls taking a prospect out to lunch and being grilled afterward by his boss on how much the candidate drank (three whiskeys) and whether he went blotto (no, he sailed through lunch unimpaired).
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The officer who was targeted found the device during a routine check of his family car at about 14:00 GMT on Sunday, as he prepared to take his wife and two children out to lunch.
He wasn't a successful man but he gave the impression of being one, and when he took us out to lunch I marveled at the peremptory tone with which he addressed the waiters, brisk unsmiling men in starched white aprons who, in that adult room of wood paneling and cigar smoke, thoroughly intimidated the lanky, nervous adolescent I then was.
There's a number of great hotels, islands to speed boat out to for lunch and then lay around in hammocks afterwards before heading to a secluded beach.
Many of them are so old they have to be carried out to the lunch room, where they are served a frugal meal of rice, lentils and vegetables.
When you have to do things during normal business hours, carve out lunch and breaks to do this.
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"Being able to go out for lunch with the best view in the city was a big selling point, " Mr. Guttmann said.
After the Mass General ICU staff received their pizzas from North Carolina, they also reached out to Hillcrest, sending lunch and dinner to the Texas hospital's ICU on April 21.
For example, Twitter is a social tool that requires very little time to use, it is much easier to send a quick 140-character tweet out during or after lunch than to carefully curate visually-driven boards on Pinterest.
It had been Goran's idea to stop for a picnic lunch on the way out to visit Dad's memorial site.
On the other hand, people who are prepared to fork out hundreds of dollars for lunch or dinner expect their surroundings to be at least as sumptuous as their food.
McKinley and Diamond, two old Montauk surfing pals, arrived at the idea for Plate Lunch after driving out to volunteer the weekend after Sandy.
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Chasing a world record fourth-innings target of 440, Pakistan collapsed from 216-4 at lunch to 289 all out.
But, in the end, Warwickshire were bowled out for for 375 just after lunch to cement Lancashire's place in third.
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Harbhajan Singh (4-64) and Amit Mishra (3-27) wreaked havoc on the final afternoon as the Aussies collapsed from 111-2 at lunch to 209 all out.
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