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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last year] an inspector came up the stairs. My roommates dived to hide the toaster and the hotpot but they didn't even think about Toby. He was sitting in plain view right next to my desk. Luckily he didn't make any noises and [the inspector] didn't even notice...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Animal Magnetism | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...since his laptop was clamped to the desk, the thief could not have stolen the whole unit, said Wang, who is a Crimson editor...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: Series of Thefts, Acts of Vandalism Hit Greenough | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...industrial Northeast Corridor and head for a place where the buffalo roam? Try the Best Western Bucks T-4 Lodge in Big Sky, Mont., at (406) 995-4111, where 20 percent of summer employees are college students. You can earn a whopping $6 an hour by staffing the front desk. Yet the cost of living is cheap; you can get room and board for $45 a week, and have time for plenty of pleasure reading...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Finding Summer Employment Is A Difficult Task | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

...were regularly doled out to the highest bidder, pleaded ignorance of the Chinese affair. Maybe so, but one at least one wheeler-dealer with established links to the Clinton Administration has already surfaced in the Justice Department's investigation. While working as a Commerce Department official, his desk calendar shows, influential Democratic fund-raiser John Huang met several times with Chinese government officials and also attended a policy breakfast and dinner at the Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Probing Chinese Political Contributions | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...about the family's moving. However, his host and ideological comrade, John S. Jones, claims that Jon never applied for residency, and representatives of New Zealand's major areligious organizations all deny an O'Hair presence. Moreover, says American Atheists' Johnson, "I have their passports right here on my desk." In fact, nobody familiar with Madalyn's devotion to the cause--or her dedication to the spotlight--could remotely imagine her successfully going "underground" anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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