Word: unpacks
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Michael Chertoff's office is full of boxes. He's been the nation's Homeland Security chief for 30 days and still he hasn't paused to unpack. There are boxes in the corner, under his desk, stacked in front of the bay window. "They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down," Chertoff says. Not that sitting is a priority. Chertoff speed-walks to meetings where he peppers subordinates with pointed questions and blazes through topics he wants to cover. He has a bad habit, aides joke, of running ahead of schedule. "It takes all the energy...
THERE ARE STACKS OF BOXES ALL OVER YOUR OFFICE. YOU HAVE BEEN ON THE JOB FOR A MONTH NOW, AND YOU HAVEN'T UNPACKED? It's all the stuff from my chambers. A lot of knickknacks accumulated over many years of public service. At some point I will move them somewhere or unpack them. They are kind of getting in the way of sitting down...
...you’re a snarky gossip columnist for the magazine, your saliva is connected by three degrees of separation to an outgoing Superboard member who has yet to unpack many of her belongings from last September’s move...
Though Goldsmith has yet to unpack the cardboard boxes piled halfway to the ceiling of his Griswold Hall office, he already raves about his new academic home. “This is the best place in the world—both in terms of faculty and students—to study international law,” he said...
...company's president, Margit Novack, spent several days with Sigmond assiduously placing green and red stickers on items indicating what would go and what would stay. Senior-move managers sort, pack and unpack, and dispose of unwanted items, though they let the movers do the heavy lifting. Think of them as moving angels. When it was finally time for Sigmond to pack up, his son and Novack took control while he jetted off to the west coast to visit friends. "By the time I got back, the new apartment was all set up, so I could walk in the door...