Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue remained undecided last Tuesday at around 5:30 p.m. as an Oval Office meeting began. The Japanese were still balking. Clinton sat at his desk with chief of staff Erskine Bowles at his side. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and White House economic adviser Gene Sperling discussed whether the President should talk to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Rubin was off to one side, pacing quietly. Asked for his recommendation, he ran his fingers through his hair, then somberly replied that intervention by itself would accomplish little. What really mattered was concrete Japanese actions...
Nunn has done a masterly job of taming this unruly work. The audience sits, theater-in-the-round style, on opposing sides of a long stage. At one end is a two-level block of cells; at the other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer...
...After many vials of blood have been taken from my arm, I am dressed in my patient's uniform--white polo shirt sporting the Cleveland Clinic logo and loose blue trousers--and seated across a desk from Dr. Richard Lang, section head of preventive medicine at Cleveland Clinic and my internist for the day. With unexpected deliberation, given the harried pace of American medicine, he spends the next hour questioning me--work, family, stresses, satisfactions, diet, diseases, sex life--progressing from the general to the specific. The goal of his detective work is to elicit hints of any underlying conditions...
...also told students, "Never mind who gets the credit." Weld said this motto was the only sign on President Reagan's desk...
...Prevention through ergonomics. Harvard's furniture does not comfortably accommodate many students. I am 5'6" (slightly above average height for a woman), but if I sit at the desk and chair Harvard supplied in my room, the surface of my desk is a full seven inches above the height recommended by UHS. When I tried going to libraries instead, I discovered that the furniture in Lamont, Cabot, my House library and my department's library also had desks uncomfortably high. If it is prohibitively expensive to buy new, adjustable chairs for dorm rooms, there needs to be at least...