Word: chalkboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Glengarry is a world of incessant motion. The characters are constantly rising up and down like the figures they so jealously keep track of on a chalkboard - struggling to gain power, reveling in their moment of glory, only to come crashing down a moment later. It is a world where men suppress their own humanity in order to become the "machine" - the ideal businessman - cool, collected, always closing a deal. It's a ripped contract. It's life...
...Bill Gates gave us a billion dollars--we're making a mountain from scratch." he says as he steps to the chalkboard...
...After 20 minutes, the sketch on the chalkboard is a full-blown blueprint of the club's ideal boarding venue, complete with solar-powered lifts, a snowboarding park, Unix terminals (to check snow conditions, of course) and hot chocolate stands every 10 feet...
Hashimoto's entourage sat on plastic chairs in front of a chalkboard, on which a tacked-up crimson banner read, "The Harvard Radcliffe Kendo Club welcomes his Excellency Ryutaro Hashimoto...
...Maryvale Precinct, home to 229 sworn officers. Marc Atkinson's old squad is just beginning its 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift. Sergeant Pete Fenton tells them about a fresh homicide and about a tree that will be planted in Marc's honor out front. A chalkboard advisory warns against dining at a certain fast-food joint because a cook with a grudge, just out of jail, is bound to add special ingredients to any cop's dinner...