Word: deskbound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Freelance. The word derives from footloose knights willing to defend any castle for a fee, and it still rings romantically. Today's deskbound journalist dreams of breaking the shackles, telling off the boss, and striking out on his own. He will decide what to write, how to write it and when to write it. Freed from the confines of a newspaper or magazine, he will fulfill the creativity he has so long suppressed as an organization...
...been deskbound in Washington for years, but now Career Girl Carol Laise, 48, is outward bound. L.B.J. tapped her last week to be U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. And it wasn't a political sop either. Carol has spent eleven years in the Foreign Service and is one of the State Department's top Asia experts. More than that, she's made four trips to the remote, Himalayan-crowned kingdom. Which makes just about everybody happy: the Nepalese because they get a plenipotentiary who knows their problems, and Carol because, as she said, "I won't have...
Challenged and excited by a city that to him was as strange and fascinating as any foreign capital, Rosenthal got off to a fast start by putting an end to the endless round of staff conferences that had kept his predecessor deskbound. Instead he began to prowl his new exotic beat-and he found stories just about everywhere he went. One of the strangest local stories in recent years came to him in just this casual fashion. Lunching one day with New York City Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, Rosenthal asked about the public image of New York's Finest...
...Pilots A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, Joseph A. Walker of the NASA and Air Force Major Robert M. White -the 1961 Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astro nautics in the U.S." fell to a currently sub-sea-level Naval aviator who has been deskbound in Washington since 1955. The Collier winner: Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., relentless ramrod of project Polaris...