Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portrait of Mayr now hangs above the circulation desk of the library in "the most visible place you can have it," according to librarian Eva S. Jonas...
...Students are misled by desk attendants who check for certain errors on the form such as conflicting exam schedules but not other errors such as failure to fill in bubbles...
Under Bradlee's direction, Post writers were awarded 18 Pulitzer Prizes. Bradlee has also received several individual awards and honors for his work at the Washington Bureau Chief's desk and as a foreign correspondent with Newsweek magazine...
...telecommunications deregulation bill that is awaiting a House-Senate conference would hasten this process. It would require all local telephone companies to open their networks to these new services so that a call placed on a PCS phone could be put through to a conventional phone on an office desk, and vice versa. Ominously to AT&T, the bill would also allow the Baby Bells and other local phone companies to enter the long-distance market...
Ryder, an internationally famous pianist, checks into a hotel in a European town he cannot identify. Something seems to be expected of him--the clerk at the registration desk makes several references to "Thursday night"--but Ryder doesn't know exactly what. A porter named Gustav escorts Ryder and his luggage into an elevator, tells him, "We're not going up far," then launches into a lengthy monologue about his attempts to win greater respect for the craft of portering. Since a later detail suggests that Ryder's room is on the second floor, the elevator must move with...