Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, the bombs are paid for again. The Senate dropped the Kosovo emergency funding bill on the President's desk Friday after passing the measure by a 64-36 vote on Thursday evening -- and the President signed it later in the day. The bill, which started as a $6 billion request from Clinton, quickly swelled to $15 billion in the House after Republicans indulged in $6 billion worth of one-upsmanship (not soft on defense, they!), some long-delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska...
Helgen and Kallin would set-up at a desk by the bathroom door and follow people into the bathroom...
...Also, secretaries offices, unlike dorm rooms, were and are configured ergonomically. Before computers became office fixtures, secretaries had both a typing table and a writing desk, the former shorter than the latter so that typing didn t involve the praying mantis posture that Harvard desks necessitate. The Sisyphean struggle of the scrivener Nipper in Herman Melville s "Bartleby the Scrivener"-first tilting his writing table to angle of the "steep roof of a Dutch house" to ease his back, then lowering the table "to his waistbands" and stooping over when it stopped the circulation in his arms, then again tilting...
...have RSI anymore. I have a bad back." If it wants to deal with the problem, he believes, the University has a responsibility to "install the proper workstations in every single room. If they want you to live on campus and they re going to provide you with a desk, they should supply you with the correct desk...since they supply you with a desk you re not going to go out and buy your own." Acting in loco parentis, Harvard needs to make us mind our posture...
...winners had their names engraved on a plaque in Dudley House, and each received an engraved desk clock...