Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ability to show us clemency or sentence us to the maximum penalty: two full weeks of sitting in that damned room as if we were waiting for an endlessly-delayed flight. Every once in a while, he would look up, bring his mouth to the small microphone on his desk and say, "The following jurors will report to the fourth floor..." I had mixed feelings at these moments: on the one hand, anything to get out from between Diane Steele and Rip Van Winkle. On the other hand, I knew that if I avoided being called for three days...
...Administration officials remain troubled by such tough features as a projected $60 billion cut in total federal spending for welfare and food stamps over the next six years and limits on aid to noncitizens, Clinton will be in a box if the bill in its present form hits his desk before the August recess. If he vetoes it--which is likely, according to senior adviser George Stephanopoulos--the G.O.P. can argue that he "talks right and negotiates left." If he signs it, he will face the wrath of party liberals at the convention...
...Often he relies on simple exhortations--to local government, network executives or tobacco companies--with no particular executive fiat lending them force. "Doesn't matter," says a Clinton adviser with obvious satisfaction. "After a while they all blend together. Bottom line: the President's signing important papers at his desk." So what if the papers merely instruct the Education Secretary to stock up on stamps and mail out truancy-prevention manuals to school districts? The image is first-rate...
Soskovets had already read Dresner's paper and pointed to a calendar on his desk. The days remaining before the presidential election's first round on June 16 were highlighted in large, bold numbers. "There's not much time," he said. "You are hired. I will tell the President that we have the Americans." And then Soskovets ominously added a thought that would reverberate in early May. Alluding to Yeltsin's poor standing and the reluctance of his aides ever to yield power to the Communists, Soskovets told Dresner, "One of your tasks is to advise us, a month from...
...triumph at the polls, then reappeared in his Kremlin office looking better than his supporters at home and abroad had feared he might. Amid rumors of more heart problems, he had canceled his public appearances a week before the second round of balloting. But there he was at his desk last Thursday, smiling and conferring with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin on who will be in the next Cabinet. Yeltsin called in television crews to film a short victory statement, in which he told the Russian people he was proud of them for making the election "free and fair." He took...