I'd included phones in the rooms, but had forgotten the front desk console and main switchboard system: add twenty-five thousand dollars to the list to allow for that.
As far as the business traveler is concerned, there were not usable outlets anywhere in the room at all. not only near the desk, but not near the bed either.
"You can have the nicest gym, but if the person at the front desk is rude and inattentive, then you don't really have a sense of a tie to the building, " Davis said.
Abawi began her career at CNN in the Media Operations department, but she quickly moved over to the International Desk, where she served in various capacities including Researcher, Assignment Editor and Producer for the Atlanta, Baghdad, Amman, Los Angeles and Islamabad bureaus.
But recently the owner of the desk commissioned furniture artist Mark Brazier-Jones to restore and preserve the artifact.
Setting off with empty stomachs, my boyfriend and I asked the front desk at our hotel for directions, but the clerk raised her eyebrows in alarm.
Evan Westrup, a spokesman for Brown, declined to comment on the audit or the scholarship program but said the governor will consider any bill reaching his desk.
Some sort of energy bill will make it to the president's desk in the next several months, but it won't be this one.
An Asian-inspired fresco decorates the wall above the registration desk, and the overall vibe is casual but elegant.
The father was trying to get some work done and the boy wanted the daddy's attention, but the father was busy at his desk with so much to do.
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But you did sell securities from the trading desk even on deals where you could no longer give them your full attention?
The next best thing to being there for Emily Springfield, desk-bound in Michigan but with her grandparents in Florida, are sites like the National Hurricane Center.
But, when the report reaches Mr Clinton's desk, the locals may get their way.
More, employees are doing work everywhere but at a desk, and telecommuting is on the rise as more and more companies seek to cut back on utility expenses.
The desk is big, too, but so is the man who greets a visitor, wearing Air Jordan sandals and a rumpled tailored suit, and has just returned from a week abroad on business.
Sophia also left (as planned, no mystery there), which is very sad, but she was on the lights-and-sound desk, so Anne-Marie (who is now in the opening dance) has to alternate with Brian on lights.
But a full-time social worker and the front-desk receptionist joined in for the patient review, too.
But that place is not at the chief secretary's desk in the Treasury.
But as he speaks, he pounds his fist on the desk.
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I'm still typing my resume, but instead of my resume being saved on the computer under my desk, it's being saved somewhere out there in the clouds, some place I don't even know off.
During their earnings call, the social network reported 618 million daily users accessing Facebook on their mobile phone, out of a total 1.1 billion daily users (I suspect some nice rounding errors there), but how people use Facebook on their mobiles is different to the desk-bound usage, and reduces their value to advertisers.
Its four buildings, designed by Branson Coates Architecture, resemble drums when seen from ground level but from the air they look like dials on a sound-mixing desk.
Educationalists have spoken of the need to make schools safer, with metal detectors, security guards and conveniently placed cell phones (one Columbine student, cowering under a desk, failed to get through to the police but managed to use his cell phone to talk to a television station).
It lay uncovered on a teacher's desk, curved and sleek, the typebars modestly contained but the chrome lever gleaming.
But, again, try to put yourself on the other side of the desk and imagine that you have 15 candidates to evaluate for one job.
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But when you get there and pop it into the little player on your desk, you hear a voice say, 'We're sorry, but you are only authorized to play this disk on up to two CD players.
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One French-born but London-based entrepreneur says he has a letter on his desk from the French government, offering a cap on his taxes if he brings his business back home.
"This looks like wood paneling, but it's wallpaper, " he smiles, tapping the hollow wall behind the desk in his office.
Accusations are levelled not in the ceremonious rigor of a court but in a dingy office, with the irate plaintiffs standing up and leaning over the desk of a judge, the better to hammer home their case.
Nasdaq had said that its document sharing service, Directors Desk, was compromised but no data or documents were stolen, but the involvement of the National Security Agency in the investigation suggests that the attack on Nasdaq may have been more severe or sophisticated than previously thought.
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