Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plans some kind of publicity event on five of the six days after the conference, each probably featuring a horror story of inefficiency. Gore has compiled an extensive list, headed by the 10 pages of specifications for ashtrays -- or, as they are known to the government, "ash receivers, tobacco (desk type...
...enable regulators to crack down harder on such abuses after FBI agents raided 95 telemarketing offices and arrested 210 people on suspicion of fraud earlier this year. The measures will now go to a House-Senate conference committee, with a final version expected to reach President Clinton's desk this fall...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
Gore is often perceived as Cosmic Al, and indeed his office is a memorial to planet Earth, with one huge picture of the sphere hanging where the grip-and- grin photos usually are. But Gore has tethered himself to the ground: on top of his desk is a foot-high stack of three-ring binders filled with the obscure yet costly rules and regulations that he hopes to bring under control. At the moment, no aspect of procurement escapes Gore's memory. While some politicians speak in sound bites and some in windy paragraphs, Gore speaks at book length whenever...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...