After all, seeing two officers waltz in at the lunch hour with Glocks strapped to their thighs might be bad for business.
It was loneliness that had led him to seek a conversation on a restaurant patio long past the lunch hour, as it was loneliness that had made her empty the refrigerator in the cottage and pack her belongings into five mega-sized black plastic garbage bags and drop them outside a Goodwill early one morning.
Some significant menu changes were required to slice the lunch "hour" in half at Markethouse, which is attached to the DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago.
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Encumbered with aides, prodded by hourly jolts from electronic media, racing from the hearing room to the caucus lunch to the Power Hour to the airport, senators no longer have the time, or perhaps the inclination, to get to know one another least of all, members of the other party.
Although the president did not take questions during the hour-long lunch, he heard presentations from three senators on the top issues facing the Senate.
With the remainder of his lunch hour, he eats a sandwich he has brought to work in a brown paper bag, and drinks a bottle of water.
Structure the outing so you have time for lunch or a happy hour visit after the game.
Joe Kiener, 53, was on his lunch hour at the childhood home where he still lives when he saw smoke approaching.
Spin was introduced for the first time half an hour before lunch, but it was a piece of brilliance from Zaheer that made the breakthrough 10 minutes before the interval.
In the old days the tried and true method was a three-martini lunch followed by an hour or two in the office before going out for happy hour cocktails.
The couple met with Mr. Gallo for a three-hour lunch, after which he sold them the home.
The focus was squarely on Katich and Shane Watson when Aamer and Asif shared the new ball for the one-hour pre-lunch session.
But I suppose if a facial is that important to you, and you don't want to get fired for taking a two-hour lunch, the faster you get in and out the better.
Even on the busiest of weeks, taking an hour-long lunch break to read alone on a nearby park bench might be just the cure for an otherwise crazy schedule and overwhelmed mind.
What a contrast to the hour and a half including lunch spared for Japanese Prime Minister Abe by Obama in February!
Trott and Neil Carter put on 102 in 26 overs in a defiant seventh-wicket stand which denied Lancashire their first breakthrough of the day until half an hour before lunch.
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Gone are the days in which lunch was a leisurely act that lasted for well over an hour and included the staples of steak and martinis.
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Halfway through the eight-hour excursion, a picnic lunch is served by an emerald glacial lake where guests have been known to jump into for an invigorating (read: freezing) swim.
He seeded what became a very substantial stock portfolio by paying utility bills in person during his lunch hour in order to invest the money he saved on stamps.
It was certainly a wretched day for Alastair Cook, in only his second Test as England captain, who could not dislodge the Bangladesh tail until half an hour before lunch.
If you can use one of your breaks or part of your lunch hour to doze off in the car or in a vacant office, you'll find yourself as energized as the kindergartners awaking from their afternoon sleep.
"Afternoon slump" the urge to nap at your desk after lunch is a normal dip in the body's 24-hour clock.
He got up at two or three in the morning to write, and wrote through his lunch hour and after dinner.
Instead of following the pack at noon, he takes his lunch break an hour or two later.
When we finally sat down for a three-hour lunch, it was evident at the end of the "background" discussion that Ms. Elliot was focusing too much on personalities, me especially, and not enough on the substantive arguments against sharia.
As soon as I felt comfortable enough to chat casually with the attorneys whose correspondence and briefs I typed, I asked them whether I could volunteer to do legal research for them on my lunch hour, after work, or on the weekends.
When I arrived at the salon, where a company called Repechage "pioneers in seaweed based skincare" has offered 30-minute facials since December, I was told that this is the latest trend: businesswomen and businessmen getting facials on their lunch hour.
With only one hour's play available before lunch at the regular time of 1300 BST, it looked like Devon Smith and Lendl Simmons might get West Indies to the interval without England adding to the two wickets they had lost overnight.
Actually, such a four-to-seven working day will be 23% shorter than the old nine-to-five with one hour off for lunch.
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