Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coverage debates," says Galston, "of the need to extend hours and concentrate funds, and I know all about the 'fade-out' phenomenon. On my second day on the job I sent out an all-points bulletin to the academic community, and I have a stack of reports on my desk about 18 inches high, most of which I've read. There's a general consensus that pouring old wine into the same bottles is the wrong way to go. I hope we'll get all the interested parties around the same table to generate an evidence-based meeting...
...office with windows on two sides. On the one side I can see the Washington Cathedral and on the other side, Virginia," he says. "If you look at my desk, it has piles of papers that have covered all the wood, all of which are marked urgent and all of which have to be done before I go home tonight...
...other hand, that familiarity, considered with the fellow Currier House residents working the bell desk 24 hours, means the single entry can lead to a lack of privacy...
...amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...Dead Poets Society": Prep schools are prisons run by desiccated old Victorian schoolmasters. The students are repressed and uptight and their parents are even worse--they'll push you till you can't take it anymore and you'll end up sneaking into your father's desk in the middle of the night to find his gun so you can blow your brains...