Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus of Currier House's architecture is its central entrance. To feel the pulse of the house only requires sitting by the bell desk at its entrance for a few minutes during term-time, says Graham...
Zyuganov steadily climbed the rungs of the regional party apparatus in Oryol, becoming chief of ideology. He was also tapped by the party's Central Committee to go to Moscow. Instead of settling behind a desk, Zyuganov was sent around the Soviet Union to check on party work, an experience that he says put him in touch with the country's problems. In 1990 he broke with then party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and helped found a hard-line Communist Party based in Russia...
ValuJet is one of a new breed of low-price airlines that seek to take advantage of a large pool of pilots and flight attendants who found themselves out of jobs after layoffs at large airlines. It is so no-frills that ValuJet president Jordan uses a $100 desk he bought at Home Depot. The strategy has proved a success for ValuJet. In 1993 the airline flew to Orlando and Tampa in Florida from Atlanta; today it serves 31 cities in 19 states. It reported that in April it had flown 50% more "revenue passenger miles" than...
...minute later, a wiry 13 year-old strolls into the office and leans on Barbosa's desk, ready to accept whatever sermon Barbosa metes...
Wednesday's sale featured one of the auction's few pieces of genuine historical significance, the Louis XVI desk on which President John F. Kennedy signed the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Estimate: $20,000 to $30,000; sale price: $1,432,500. The buyer was that frequent successful bidder, Anonymous...