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...Owner B.R. Sharma's Indiawide network of suppliers have been unearthing antiques for more than 30 years. He displays the wares in vast sheds on a sprawling estate in the city's south. You're free to browse acres of Tibetan trunks, Rajasthani cupboards and rolltop desks without nagging. And although Indian law prohibits the export of items more than 100 years old, if something truly venerable appeals, Sharma's carpenters will knock up an imitation for a fraction of the price...
...Lowell.” The full-wood paneling in the main room of the suite, the sconces and the token fireplace help to give the room an old-Harvard feel. But Simuni is proudest of his “secret liquor cabinet”—an old rolltop desk that hides a martini glass, shaker and other must-haves of the smart set that ensures the gentlemen of Clavery 9 are always ready for a toast to the glory of the housing lottery...
...stores no farther than a day's drive from huge warehouse hubs. While other large retailers were allowing service to deteriorate, Wal-Mart stores were stationing a friendly greeter at the front door to welcome customers. The headquarters' down-home feel is real enough, but don't look for rolltop desks and clipboards. Walton -- Mr. Sam to his 350,000 employees -- invested in a state-of-the-art corporate satellite system that has enabled the company to perfect round-the-clock inventory control so that the products customers want are nearly always in stock. In Bentonville a computer center...
Corporate treasurers have become artful in explaining away their delinquencies. Blaming the post office is now as old-fashioned as the rolltop desk. More up-to-date bromides include: "My firm's headquarters is in Paris, and the checks come from there"; "We're missing your invoice"; or "Our computer broke down...
...whips out a pocket calculator and does some rapid figuring before giving the hired hands orders on, say, exactly how much pesticide to spray on each field. By 8 a.m. he is heading home to start the most important part of his day: several hours spent at a rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output in bushels and dollars. He draws up precise operating schedules for his half-million dollars' worth of machinery; after all, every gallon of fuel...