Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this age of scandal, government officials more often quit in shame than resign over principle. So Washington took notice last week when Marshall Harris, a 32-year-old desk officer at the State Department, publicly left his post after reaching "level-10 frustration" at the Clinton Administration's erratic Bosnia policy. "I thought about resigning last month when Secretary Christopher said the U.S. was doing all it could," he says. "But the real kicker came when I found out we were putting heavy pressure on the Muslims to come to an agreement in Geneva, and using the threat of withholding...
Accustomed to the easygoing life of the feature-writer, Nelson is reassigned with disastrous results to the Metropolitan Desk when the Post Magazine folds. She considers this assignment a banishment to professional purgatory, since it is staffed primarily with minorities...
...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...
...first director to have emergency- management experience. And his 20-year friendship with the President has given Witt clout among Cabinet agencies with which his agency must coordinate $ emergency relief. But Witt has also won praise for his energetic efforts to reform and streamline the hapless agency. On his desk, he placed a warning, penned on a plain sheet of paper: WHEN ENTERING THIS ROOM, DO NOT SAY "WE'VE NEVER DONE IT THIS WAY BEFORE...
...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...