Can you do this HTML layout without using tables?

Question

Ok, I had a simple layout problem a week or two ago. Namely sections of a page needed a header:

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Answer 1

This is kind of a trick question: it looks terribly simple until you get to

Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered.

I want to state for the record that yes, vertical centring is difficult in CSS. When people post, and it seems endless on SO, "can you do X in CSS" the answer is almost always "yes" and their whinging seems unjustified. In this case, yes, that one particular thing is hard.

Someone should just edit the entire question down to "is vertical centring problematic in CSS?".