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...students in the class of 1982 come from 250 colleges and universities in 46 states and 42 foreign countries. In a typical class, about 75 of them are corralled into a windowless amphitheater, and each takes a swivel chair and puts his name card on his section of a long curving desk. Then comes the work, endless work. The first-year student stays at his desk for three hours in the morning and 1½ hours in the afternoon while the different professors come and go. They teach all the required basic courses-finance, marketing, production and operations management...
...first few days, Jones was kept upstairs in the embassy residence. Then he and about 25 other hostages were moved to the windowless basement, which they nicknamed the Mushroom...
...capture, said Queen, several of the hostages were held in small rooms at the embassy, while others were led blindfolded through streets filled with mobs screaming for their death. Two weeks after the takeover, many of the hostages were herded into the "Mushroom Inn," their nickname for the windowless basement of the main embassy building, which their captors had divided into small rooms to serve as cells. The hostages' hands were bound, and some were forced to sit for as long as 16 hours a day, facing blank walls. Queen was imprisoned with a roommate, Joseph Hall...
...slow day in June, and Salvatore ("Sam") Cucinotta is sitting in his windowless office shuffling papers when the phone rings. The Supreme Court is calling. As he tells it now, "I jumped up and stood at attention." It is big news: the court has agreed to hear U.S. vs. Morrison...
...comment.' " Top executives no longer have to punch a code into an elevator in the parking garage before they can enter the firm's unpretentious headquarters two miles from the Las Vegas strip. Company officers now work in fourth-floor offices rather than the windowless basement rooms that Hughes' aides occupied...