Word: desk
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...Park Avenue office, Kissinger works at a desk covered with precise rows of labeled folders, suggesting a world tidier than it is. Gone are the old trappings of office -- the direct phone link to the President, the reams of classified documents. But he dismisses secret papers as too short-range to be useful now. Experience enables his team to glean much from press reports. He is out more than in, meeting clients in corporate boardrooms, making more than 50 speeches a year for a minimum of $20,000 each, cultivating new contacts as old ones phase...
...President rises at 5:30 every morning to pray. By 8 a.m. he is reviewing a stack of correspondence at his desk in the spartan Dodan Barracks in Lagos, where he lives and works. Outside, two armored cars and two tanks evince the might of the Nigerian military. They are also reminders of the dangers that the country's youthful President, Major General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, faces as he goes about reshaping Nigeria's corrupt and debt-ridden society. The President recently granted a 50-minute interview to TIME Correspondent James Wilde. Throughout, he displayed a ready smile...
...Kappa from hometown Washington and Lee University. After a hitch as a Marine combat officer in Korea, he graduated from the Yale Law School, flunked the New York bar exam and was a partner in a small business. Then at age 26 he had a conversion experience ("At my desk in my office, I leaned back in my chair and burst out laughing . . . I had passed from death into life") and entered the Biblical Seminary in New York City...
Maybe the unanimous reports of election watchers, including the U.S.'s own official observer team and the State Department, that Aquino forces had not been involved in any significant fraud or violence didn't find their way to Reagan's desk...
...criminal division. For young attorneys, the Southern District is the place. Competition for jobs is intense; nearly all of those chosen made law review at the most prestigious law schools. Every morning at 9, the heads of the various units sit in green leather chairs around Giuliani's desk, which resembles a display counter in a second-hand store selling Yankee memorabilia. Giuliani, his presidential-seal cuff links gleaming, his manner radiating enthusiasm, listens to each of their reports. The mood is one of seriousness seasoned by banter. At one recent session, the corruption-unit chief tells him that...