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Word: desks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hobbled over to the information desk, dragging my 75-pound duffel bag, determined to take control of the situation and hoping the daintily-clad attendants in pink uniforms would come to my rescue. The two of them looked panicked as I approached. "Is this where people usually meet?" I mumbled in Japanese. They seemed to understand and nodded yes. I took my chances and decided to ask Osaka Gas, hoping for the faintest sign of recognition. Perhaps he had left a note for me. But their confused looks and empty nods revealed they had no idea what I was talking...

Author: By Amy M. Rabinowitz, | Title: Japan's Surprises and Wonders | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...next day I noticed two Hershey's Kisses wrappers on a colleague's desk. Ordinarily I might have asked to dip into her stash; now I merely gazed at the silvery foil and moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S ON REDUX | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...Clintons are "renting out" rooms in the White House [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 2] to the ritzy, glitzy donors to the Democratic Party's moneybag? Shame on whoever is running the reservation desk at Hotel Maison Blanche! JESSE MARKHAM Friendship, Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

This piece of paper, crafted five years ago, is kept in the top drawer of Gates' desk...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: One Man's Dream | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...premiere episode, Shields' straitlaced Susan Keane leaves her wealthy fiance at the altar, makes the improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further embraces her nascent singlehood with earnestly delivered proclamations like "For the first time in my life, I don't know what's going to happen next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: MAKEOVER MANIA | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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