Word: deskless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gone with Witt but with FEMA's regional director (although he had gone on 17 other Witt trips to disaster areas). In fact, Kaylie Ellis isn't still standing at Sarasota High School, but her lab built for 24 is squeezing in 36, and other students are still deskless. Kids at that other school Gore mentioned are eating lunch at 10 a.m., not 9:30. And when a well-off son appeared to cast doubt on Winnie's need to recycle aluminum, she reiterated her desire not to take charity from anyone...
...trend is a logical outgrowth of the deskless office. Since most executives want to show that they are policy thinkers who leave routine paperwork to underlings, desks have tended to disappear. Furthermore, explains Arnold Maremont, president of Chicago's automotive products firm, the Maremont Corp.: "A man sitting behind a desk is a man on horseback. He becomes a dictator." The same desire for informality applies in the board room. Abandoning the austere, paneled room built around a massive, no-nonsense board table, directors of more and more firms sit on upholstered chairs and comfortable couches, chat over...
...some executives have misgivings about tableless board rooms and deskless offices. Says Frank Stanton. president of the Columbia Broadcasting System: "I would feel a little awkward with just a coffee table. I just can't be that exposed...
More to Tap. Young Dick Gump was already running everything but finances before his father died in 1947. An amateur composer and watercolorist, Dick Gump had sharpened his collector's eye and taste on buying trips to Mexico and Italy. He directs the business from a deskless office, likes to roam through the store's three floors wearing loud-colored sport shirts. He also keeps tabs on Gump's branches in Honolulu and Carmel...
...little hoarse from a cold picked up in Kansas City. But he had warm words for his audience, for the French in Canada, for Canada as a whole and for U.S.Canadian relations. Time & again he was interrupted by the desk-thumping of M.P.s and handclaps from the deskless Senators...
| 1 |