Word: desks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...theme extends to corporate overhead. At ValuJet, Jordan conducts business from a $100 desk he bought at Home Depot. Air 21 operates from a vintage Army Air Corps barracks at the Fresno airport. The furnishings are Holiday Inn castoffs and a pawnshop TV. In-flight meals are a rarity, and other economies are visible. Air 21 doesn't buy paper napkins; it gets them free from restaurants in Fresno that thereby gain advertising for their names...
Tomorrow morning you go to work at Amalgamated Potato and find an envelope on your desk with the CEO's name in the upper-left corner, and you sit down and draw a deep breath. After 22 years working your way up through the Skin Division, you are about to become road kill, one more confused raccoon smeared across the corporate highway...
...Brown and 34 others on April 3. Perhaps the tragedy could have been averted if the U.S. Air Force had deployed one of its AN/TRN-26 Tactical Air Navigation systems there. The unit can offer detailed guidance to as many as 100 planes at once. Just the size of a desk and equipped with a 10-ft.-high antenna, the system is so portable it can be set up in only four hours. The Air Force has 43 of these units, which it routinely deploys to under-equipped airports. Four are in use: in Jordan, in Hungary, in the Bosnian town...
...have a box that I keep underneath my desk of all the letters I've received since I was two years old. I've had the same box since I was 10; it's overflowing now, the sides are coming apart, and the red piece of yarn that holds it together is badly frayed...
Bakal's "small" but significant contribution proposal is for desk lamps. Desk lamps! How many times have I complained about the poor lighting in my room. And how many times have I cursed the fact that I have to go to the overpriced Coop to buy a halogen lamp. A desk lamp. Now that is good thinking. They would be a very welcome addition. So would Matt Bakal and maybe then I could be proud of my student government and stop laughing at it. Although that has been...