Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is plenty of clutter in the spacious office of William Gates. Overlooking a 260-acre campus dotted with magnificent fir trees, the room contains a forest of paper. His desk is completely covered by scattered piles of documents; next to it the matching beige credenza is buried under small mountains of loose letters, memos and newspaper clips. Even the floors are littered with the stuff. But if the co-founder and chief executive of computer-software powerhouse Microsoft has his way, this pulp potpourri will soon recede. "I don't want to get rid of all paper," says Gates...
...None of us are professionals at... financial planning or personnel planning, strategic planning and all this stuff," says longtime Business School Dean John H. McArthur. "There's no handbook or manual or training program. It's just, one day you're in here and you're sitting at your desk...
...slight, bearded man, often casually dressed in jeans and black Reeboks. Hardcovered philosophy books line the shelves of his large office, and a depiction of a cow amidst grass with the legend "Outstanding in the Field" adorns a mug sitting in the middle of his somewhat cluttered desk...
...student gave the mug to him, he explains. The two small figurines on another corner of the desk are part of a Wittgenstein joke reference comprehensible only to those in the know, but the humor of a nearby Citizen Goldfarb book, the self-published autobiography of an obscure industrialist, is self-explanatory...
...Memorial Day, and Harvard Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy is alone at the office. He's not sitting in the 29 Garden St. police station, where he currently presides as the officer-in-charge while Chief Paul E. Johnson undergoes medical treatment. Instead, he's set up at a desk in the Medford office of Cavalier Coach Corporation, the primary bus company for reunion week...