Word: desk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that a President should not be required to drop affairs of state every time someone decides to sue. If this door is opened, the argument goes, Presidents will be besieged by politically motivated lawsuits. "It's really about the people's interest in having the President at his desk doing the job they elected him to do," says Stanford law professor Kathleen Sullivan, who signed a pro-Clinton brief...
...Kremlin's bold tax-collection initiative has run out of steam. Yeltsin has been utterly unable to keep his promise to pay the back salaries due state employees ranging from teachers to coal miners. While his aides are saying the president could return to his desk as early as January 28, "That is very much a hope rather than an assumption they are making," says Quinn-Judge...
...original dozen Microsoft employees (most with scruffy beards, except him), one of Ann Winblad on a trip to Germany, and one with Melinda and nine friends on a 1995 vacation to Indonesia. There are no pictures of Jennifer displayed, but he pulls a snapshot out of his desk showing him proudly cradling...
Part of what makes him so enigmatic is the nature of his intellect. Wander the Microsoft grounds, press the Bill button in conversation and hear it described in computer terms: he has "incredible processing power" and "unlimited bandwidth," an agility at "parallel processing" and "multitasking." Watch him at his desk, and you see what they mean. He works on two computers, one with four frames that sequence data streaming in from the Internet, the other handling the hundreds of E-mail messages and memos that extend his mind into a network. He can be so rigorous as he processes data...
...order to dodge overcrowded libraries and rooms that are not conducive to study, for instance, Gregory says she'll periodically return home to sit at a quiet desk while studying for her exams...