Field-level studies in selected countries and a desk research covering 11 countries have been launched this month under the supervision of UNESCO's Office in Nairobi.

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Most of what is left over was claimed by the big highway bill (HR2400) that is on President Clinton's desk or by an agriculture research and food stamp bill (S1150) that the House cleared June 4.

CNN: By Andrew Taylor, CQ Staff Writer

Of late, several very bullish think pieces from broad based research houses hit my desk.

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On Monday morning in Paris the phone rings on the desk of Christian Vandenhende, the Renault manager whose benchmarking research on global sourcing Ghosn had cited in the Sunderland meeting on Friday.

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But most companies fail to include their help desk operations in planning for those "cope and recover" stages, according to market research firm Gartner Group Inc.

CNN: Help desks left out of Y2K loop

According to research firm Gartner, in a typical enterprise, 30% of all help-desk calls are password-reset requests, and in some businesses, they account for as much as 60%.

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There is not a single bed, couch, lab counter, library desk, football end zone, university founder's statue, Henry Moore sculpture or monkey research cage on top of which you, the outstanding class of 2013, haven't copulated.

WSJ: Rob LaZebnik's Message for the Class of 2013 | Saturday Essay

The next year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology.

MSN: First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82

He invented operations research, and he may have saved thousands upon thousands of lives without ever leaving his desk, such things as how to hunt down the German submarines or how to avoid German anti-submarine - how to avoid German planes when you're on a convoy across the Atlantic.

NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy