Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not up his production beyond a quarter of that figure. Mollycoddling unions, idiotic government policies that let Japan and Germany grab good British markets, slackness, laziness, incompetence, stupidity-these were just some of the gnats that buzzed around the head of Chairman Cartwright as he sat at his desk opposite Managing Director William Pethybridge at Oldham one day last week...
Booby-Trapped. One answer to all this, says I.P.I., is to maintain a "Russian desk," staffed with experts who know Russia intimately and whose job is to winnow all Russian publications (including correspondents' censored dispatches) for the significance that lies behind the distorted facts. For, concludes I.P.I., "there is no 'news' of the Soviet Union as such, but only information indeterminate in quantity and undigested in character." Only experts, trained as journalists, can digest it and tell newspaper readers what the loaded story really means...
Holmes has all the advantages of up to date design. The 51 rooms, uniformly covered with light pastel shades, have pine furniture, pine beds, and pine doors. In each room there are two desk lamps. The accent on living is an accent on simplicity and mass-production good taste...
Just before 6:30 Nixon sat down behind a desk in an NBC television studio in Hollywood, a sheaf of papers at his elbow. He had no written script, and the television crews were so uncertain of his plans that they warmed up two extra cameras in case he should walk out of range of the primary camera. Nixon's wife Pat sat in an armchair a few feet from the desk. When the announcer cued Nixon to start talking, not even Pat knew precisely what Nixon was going...
...news room is the center of the paper. Each day editors check an assignment sheet tacked up by the Managing Editor on the wall across from the night editor's desk. A few of the day's stories are assigned, but most of the news comes in from the editors themselves. The editorial topics are discussed and assigned twice a week...