Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal, worked out in secret talks between senior U.S. and Cuban officials, infuriated anti-Castro activists in Miami and their supporters in Washington, and two veteran U.S. diplomats requested transfers off the Cuba desk. But in another turnaround, the agreement will also permit some 15,000 Cuban rafters now being housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington...
...awaiting trial, Najarian has retreated into his private practice. At the University of Minnesota Hospital, where he still performs two or three transplants a week, the embattled physician can often be seen striding down corridors in his white coat and surgical greens or sitting behind his desk in his out-of-the-way office, musing quietly amid pictures of his adult sons. On the advice of his lawyers, Najarian is saying little about the charges he faces, but he makes no secret of his anger and sense of betrayal. "The university," he says, "turned on me because they were afraid...
Potential for Concentration. Contingent. A font of temptation for the easily distracted. (See any "Noah's Archives.") However, those who relish the archetypal collegiate image of the student hunched over a desk in a small cubicle, engulfed by books, will find their paradise in the stacks (See "Noah's Archives" again.) Hiding on any of the seven floors, plus the moving stacks, offers isolation from the ever-encroaching social world...
What he's doing to procrastinate now: I'm swimming (though FM questions team sports as a valid form of procrastination) and doing a bit of photo on the side...I'm playing with little pieces of paper on my desk, rolling and unrolling them...
...others crashing down, floor after floor, into the rubble below. The chief of a housing program was spared because he had just left the building for an inspection trip and was taking his car out of a garage when the blast hit; a secretary was away from her desk; another male employee had just got up to go to the bathroom. The others in his office--perhaps four or five in all, who were in their normal places--were not so lucky...