Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...List was on an entirely different plateau. It was divided into 13 lucky subsections: clothing, shower gear, laundry paraphanalia, medical supplies, linens, for the desk, for studying, for maintenance, appliances, for the wall, for storage, food stuffs and, finally, the ever ambiguous etc. The List pretty much instructed us to pack the entire contents of our home and that of the closest neighbor. Families in town began designating entire rooms, entire wings to hold the extravaganza of supplies needed to insure a safe passage from home to the wild college scene...
Lori comes to work in clean white Reeboks, then changes into the greasy pair she keeps under her desk. She arrives early and stays late, managing the shop, working the phones, soothing the customers, ordering parts, keeping the books, making haircut appointments for the mechanics, test-driving all the cars. "She makes things happen," says Cavataio. "She's allowed the business to grow." Grow so fast, in fact, that they have been fighting the city to let them keep more cars on their cluttered lot than the city fathers would like. "I guess we didn't understand the politics...
...weekend, therefore, loses all meaning. While other, happy people in the real world are allowed to leave behind until Monday morning their file folders, their memos, their tired, their poor, we leave behind nothing. We come home from a party--and our Core sourcebook sits lonely on our desk. We return from an outing to Filene's Basement--and the fellowship applications lie desperately blank on our floor...
...used to have one desk for each program," says Han. "Now we're down to one file cabinet per program...
...billion Contrafund, talks about the huge sum of money he is investing. Danoff is a star--the fund's average annual return between 1990 and 1995 was about 22%, vs. 14% for the S&P 500 for those years. Printouts and annual reports are stacked on his chairs, desk, cabinets and floor; almost hidden in the mess are four computer screens. On one wall Danoff has hung a printout with a quote from Churchill to one of his generals: "What have you done...