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For some in the markets, the G-20 has simply become a talking-shop.

G-20 Flies Under Market Radar Richard Barley 2011

The Beirut39 festival is the last event of Beirut's year as the World City of Books and it has created a talking-shop for writers of very different cultures and literatures.

Lori Wood: Beirut39 Festival Launches International Careers for 39 Top Young Arab Writers Lori Wood 2010

The festival is the last event of Beirut's year as the World City of Books and it has created a talking-shop for writers of very different cultures and literatures.

Beirut39 Festival Launches International Careers for 39 Top Young Arab Writers 2010

The festival is the last event of Beirut's year as the World City of Books and it has created a talking-shop for writers of very different cultures and literatures.

Lori Wood: Beirut39 Festival Launches International Careers for 39 Top Young Arab Writers 2010

The festival is the last event of Beirut's year as the World City of Books and it has created a talking-shop for writers of very different cultures and literatures.

Lori Wood: Beirut39 Festival Launches International Careers for 39 Top Young Arab Writers Lori Wood 2010

Senator Bayh only chairs an authorization sub-committee, and Senator Lugar is no longer in the majority and again, is only part of an authorizing committee that is increasingly seen as a talking-shop and is generally ignored amid the spiralling spending.

Sunil Chacko: Senator Leahy's Letter to the G.A.O., the Investigative Arm of the U.S. Congress 2009

This marks the latest stage in the evolution of the World Economic Forum from a gathering of European businessmen trying to figure out how to get more trade liberalisation into the leading talking-shop for the global elite.

Steven G. Brant: Mountain Redesign: What "Davos Man" Should Be Doing 2009

Clearly Iran is the next planned target, the dominant media echoes the threat, and Congress is just a talking-shop like always posturing as the gathering storm in the Gulf intensifies.

George Bush's Samson Option 2007

As a founding member of the geek talking-shop Lunar Society membership included such tech buffs as doctor Erasmus Darwin, potter Josiah Wedgwood, and buckle-maker Matthew Boulton, Small was also an early supporter and helper of James Watt, a close friend of oxygen discoverer Joseph Priestley, and was active in geology, optics, metallurgy, chemistry, and gunnery.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, addressed the Chatham House talking-shop in London.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: June 2007 Archives 2007