Word: formicaed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blue-gray ergonomic chair, with a tilt-swivel mechanism and pneumatic adjustment, vinyl arms and a star pedestal base, retails for $500. It's a fine chair. But it's just a chair, of course -- except when it sits behind the most famous Formica desk in America, the first desk in the history of the Republic to stand for something other than homework and bureaucracy. When that chair sits behind the Desk That Johnny Built, that chair, of course, is a throne...
...songs are a treat for any sixties fan. The singing? Well, to quote a mythical reviewer in Forever Plaid" "This group's sound is to contemporary music what formica is to marble." This is not really true--those who enjoy the genre may find the renditions of songs like "No, Not Much" and "Catch A Falling Star" very appealing...
Italians are notorious for not paying their taxes, but with the government staggering under annual deficits of more than $100 billion, Rome can no longer afford to wink at deadbeats. To embarrass delinquents, Finance Minister Rino Formica launched Operation Glass House, giving computerized lists of the past decade's 270,000 tax evaders to the press. The lists include such figures as leather-goods entrepreneur Roberto Gucci and Benito Mussolini's son Romano...
From greeting to goodbye, Rodriguez acted like a charming host. Enthroning himself behind a built-in Formica desk, he said, "My time is yours. Ask anything you want. I won't be offended...
While worried Sears directors were seeking solutions in Chicago, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, 72, was working in his spartan little office at headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. (pop. 11,000). Starting at 7 every morning, well-scrubbed, energetic employees scurry through the drab two-story building whose Formica desks and battleship-gray walls belie the company's immense profitability. Before long, a crowd of would-be suppliers begins forming at the front door: vendors carrying trunks and cases of products, hoping to interest Wal-Mart buyers in their toothpaste, panty hose, toasters and hundreds of other products. Wal-Mart buyers...