Word: deskbound
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Gans found his journalists to be predominantly upper middle class in origin and outlook, overworked, deskbound, interested more in pleasing their peers than their audiences; and determined to keep their reports free of bias. Gans did, however, see them subconsciously defer to a set of "enduring values": democracy, responsible capitalism, individualism, moderation. He concludes that the press pays too much attention to the nation's Government and corporate ruling elites, and too little to the poor and powerless. As one remedy, he proposes a national Endowment for News to ladle out Government money to improve coverage of ordinary folk...
Italy has 180,000 postal workers, about the same number in proportion to population as the U.S. But too many are deskbound and inefficient. As Paris' Le Monde recently observed in an editorial, "Italy is the only country besides Tibet in which it is impossible to communicate through a postal service." Le Monde's slur was unfair-to Tibet, which can get an airmail letter to New York by yak, truck and plane a week faster than young Getty's ear reached Rome...
...campus study, S.U.N.Y. believes, should provide the advantages of higher learning to countless adults who might otherwise have no chance for a degree. These might include, for example, homebound housewives, deskbound businessmen and thousands of students too poor to afford living on campus. More important, perhaps, the newest "university without walls" will allow S.U.N.Y. to absorb many more students without erecting and maintaining expensive physical facilities. By 1974, the university expects 10,000 students in its un-campused college. By then, planners estimate that economies made possible by the new program should reduce the total yearly cost of educating...