When a reporter passed away a few years back, dropping dead from an unexpected heart attack, his friend placed the potted plants he kept at the office on the now-empty desk.

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Tom had emptied out the pens and pencils from a mug he kept on his desk and that empty mug was now his only possession.

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Yet the kid with the black rimmed glasses and six empty cans of Red Bull on his desk is a whiz.

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Empty cubicles with Aeron chairs and elegant brass desk lamps fill the brown granite headquarters of MBIA in Armonk, N.

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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.

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