Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stately Four Seasons Clift Hotel in San Francisco, children are greeted by name at the check-in desk and treated as honored guests. Their private room ($175 a night) connects with Mom and Dad's ($235 for a deluxe room) and comes equipped with tiny terry robes and teddy bears. Instead of mints on the pillows, children find Oreos or Blue Chip cookies and milk after a night on the town. One call to housekeeping will produce not only fresh towels and ice cubes, but also games, books, diapers and the use of a Nintendo video game. A pediatrician...
...upstairs, he probably saw the flag in the Yellow Room or maybe the one in the Blue Room. Maybe he glanced down toward the Mall and spied the 50 flags at the base of the Washington Monument. If he missed all those flags, there was one right behind his desk in the Oval Office...
...phone on the desk of Richard Munro, chairman of Time Inc., rang at 6 p.m. last Tuesday. On the line was Martin Davis, chairman of Paramount Communications, a onetime industrial conglomerate that had changed its name from Gulf & Western just the day before. Davis had a stunning message for his fellow chief executive. Although Munro had assurances from Davis that he would not mount a takeover bid for Time, Davis was reneging: he declared that Paramount was launching an offer to acquire Time for $175 a share, or $10.7 billion. Time stock had closed at 126 that...
...with "character assassination." By Tuesday, Atwater was backpedaling, saying he had not approved the memo: "I feel confident that if I had seen this, it would not have gone out." Atwater apologized to Foley; Gingrich also apologized and disavowed his aide's actions. Wednesday Goodin cleaned out his desk...
...Most of all, they talk nostalgically of the days when writers remained faithful and when publishers were not obsessed with best sellers and did not have to worry, in the words of Random House's Epstein, about "getting Faulkner on TV." Pointing to a promising first novel on his desk, he muses, "This just turned up the way these things do. But if the book is a success, we may never publish him again. His price may be too high...