Word: desks
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...resume the toil of the summer job search, I do so with a sense of disillusionment and, admittedly, some resentment. On my desk sit two clippings from the Crimson. One is an ad that offers opportunity to all. The other tells me that a mistake has been made. In fact, due to my skin color, I am not invited. Thankfully, we have come a long way since the days of legal segregation. So why I do I feel like I accidentally sat at the wrong lunch counter...
Washington has been similarly enthralled. The week he became a Senator, Thompson was selected to give the G.O.P. response to Clinton's televised announcement of the tax-cut plan he had cobbled together in the wake of the devastating 1994 election. Thompson delivered it sitting casually atop a desk, and it lasted only five minutes. But it was enough to produce the drooling headline a star is born on Frank Rich's column in the New York Times...
Jeremiah O'Keefe is at his desk in the headquarters of Gulf National Insurance Co., a key part of the O'Keefe family's Biloxi empire. Gulf National sells "pre-need" funeral insurance, which lets forward-thinking souls pay in current dollars for funerals that are bound to be more costly down the road. Funerals have always been a family affair for the O'Keefes. As a teenager, O'Keefe helped out with embalmings done in the homes of the deceased, to which he and the embalmer brought large suitcases and big jugs for catching--well, for helping the newly...
Martin says he thinks the "computer on every desk" initiative has largely been achieved already...
Although the committee wants a computer on every faculty desk, the idea of providing students with computers is not receiving the same level of support...