Word: officebound
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...course, men taking over the kitchen from officebound wives is not entirely new. Martin Ginsburg, husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has been the main cook in his household for nearly 50 years--ever since he took a bite of Ruth Bader's tuna casserole ("as close to inedible as food could be"). Their daughter Jane agreed with this assessment at an early age, he recalls, and mounted "a campaign to exclude Mommy from the kitchen, which Mommy fully supported." Upon Mommy's nomination to the bench, Jane remarked that she grew up "in a home with...
...legs? Answer: the rival teams of lawyers appearing in court to argue the Government's mammoth IBM antitrust suit. The largest such case ever to go to trial in the U.S. finally got under way in a New York federal district court last week, even bringing the usually officebound IBM chairman Frank T. Gary in to watch the opening session. Already, critics contend that the main thing the trial will prove is that the antitrust laws have become so complex to enforce in a modern economy that they are of little use in curbing business giantism...
...campers looked like any group of seasoned hikers enjoying the outdoors, but they actually were previously officebound executives experiencing perhaps their most unusual assignment. At the suggestion of their companies, the businessmen and women were participating in an executive-enrichment program developed and operated by Colorado's Outward Bound school...
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