Word: desks
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...commission's final report must be on the President's desk by July 1. He can kill it or send it on, in toto, to Congress, but he cannot pick it apart. Congress can accept it by taking no action, or reject it by resolution of both houses, a move subject to a presidential veto. Given the cutbacks in defense spending and the need to close down some bases, the pressure to approve the commission's final list is likely to be overwhelming...
Because his first priority is "safety, safety and safety," Riordan said, he plans to beef up the 7,800-member police force immediately with overtime pay, the transfer of desk officers to patrol, and more reservists. The 3,000 additional officers he has promised later will be paid for by streamlining other city departments, leasing the airport and privatizing some services. No new taxes, he vows, because Los Angeles "has already taxed itself out of the competition for new business...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, blue polka-dot bow tie flagging his considerable presence, walked into the Oval Office last week, a 6-ft. 4-in. "loose cannon," as the Clinton crew viewed him. Moynihan coolly surveyed the office paintings, indicating his reservations, checked to be sure the elegant desk used by John Kennedy (a Moynihan idol) was still there, settled on a couch and told the President of the United States, 20 years his junior, that the BTU energy tax was dead, moribund, finished...
...bright green sign is taped to the glass doors at the entrance to the Indian health facility in Crownpoint, New Mexico: IF YOU HAVE HAD FEVERS, CHILLS, JOINT AND MUSCLE ACHES, COUGHING OR HEADACHES, PLEASE NOTIFY THE NURSE AT THE FRONT DESK IMMEDIATELY. Inside, the waiting room of the 39-bed hospital is jam-packed: the old, the middle-aged, children and even an unattended prisoner in flimsy ankle cuffs...
...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...