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CEO's don't spend their time conniving in smoke-filled rooms, they spend it trying to push their company forward.

Cubes, private offices, smoke-filled private offices with good friends, and also open plans in both spacious and cramped rooms.

Instead they avoid the topic or engage in a sort of theater debate while the proverbial smoke-filled room dealmaking happens.

Yes, they sit around in smoke-filled rooms scheming about how to make kids fatter and fatter.

Hitting people with an inflammatory stick would be calling out a smoke-filled racist room in the Googleplex; she doesn't do that.

I picture some guy doing this spoken-word style in a smoke-filled Internet cafe.

One of the more surprising was that in a period of about 3 years, Greek bars and nightclubs went from being 100% smoke-filled to being essentially smoke-free.

The Romney campaign played the 'smoke-filled room' game (for all we can tell).

All the studies I read used new filters, smoke-filled rooms, a day's treatment.

O, Internet RFC 1-8-5-5, Our last and best hope, patently The ‘Net is a queen-less and smoke-filled hive Without such a thing Without such a thing Without such an RFC!

> Almost all of history's greatest, most-destructive conspiracies were not concealed in smoke-filled rooms, they were published and advertised to great fanfare.

The Columbia MBA who becomes the VP/Finance of your dopey startup (instead of going directly into the smoke-filled rooms and half-million salaries) is going to have a gigantic chip on her shoulder, guaranteed, because she had to be in the bottom 5% of her class to be there.

Elections have always been won via "haggling", whether that happened in the proverbial smoke-filled rooms of party conventions.

There is no smoke-filled room where the managers say, "oh no, we can't pursue that it might cure people!".

Yeah the line: > “We will not tolerate anticompetitive conduct, whether it occurs in a smoke-filled room or over the Internet using complex pricing algorithms,” Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer of the Justice Department’s antitrust unit said in a statement.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Almost all of history's greatest, most-destructive conspiracies were not concealed in smoke-filled rooms, they were published and advertised to great fanfare.