The Sheriff was called away to an interview, which he conducted on speakerphone from his desk.
For months after his father died, Jim Tisch would rise from his desk to begin the trek down the hallway in search of a consult with his dad.
Salman Khan (the educator, not the Bollywood actor) is changing the very foundation of how eduction is delivered between a teacher and student, from his small desk in his home, without a PhD or years serving in academia.
He dealth with some nasty characters, like Ivan Boesky and Victor Posner and Meshulam Riklis, but from his trading desk in Beverly Hills he also raised billions of dollars for Turner Broadcasting, MCI, Time Warner, Medco, McCaw Cellular and Rupert Murdoch's enterprises.
Its waistcoated patriarch, Hal Lainson, presides at the age of 85 from behind his splendid antique desk.
Would he be concerned at all about a major immigration bill passed, finalized, sent to his desk from lame duck?
Then a business plan crossed his desk from eight young engineers in California disenchanted with the tumultuous atmosphere at Shockley Semiconductor.
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.
He directs his empire from a paper-stacked desk in an open room surrounded by the desks of his lieutenants.
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FDR's secretary of labour, whose picture he rescues from obscurity and hangs behind his desk.
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.
As he emerged from the columns of books surrounding his desk, he seemed almost meek and startled even though he had postponed our interview by over half an hour.
Just beyond his tattered wood desk, a vintage Miami cruiser hangs from one of his patent-pending pedal hooks - the perfectly rusted patina on the low-riding frame is the closest thing to art on the walls.
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Eventually, Joel navigated his small one bedroom from a rolling desk chair.
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His desk sports a note from a U.S. army lieutenant colonel in Afghanistan thanking him for donating radio receivers and raising troop morale.
Kendall pulled himself away from the window and walked back to his desk, where he picked up the book that was lying there.
His desk sports a note from a U.S. army lieutenant colonel serving in Afghanistan thanking him for donating radio receivers and raising troop morale.
Spending 18 hour days at his desk, Woodman went from drilling pieces together for prototypes to making 3 AM phone calls to China to obtain the right parts for his camera.
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It was said that in his desk he kept signed letters from African presidents requesting French intervention.
Mark Hurd had one key memento on his desk: His name plate from the day when, as the newly-minted chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, he had to testify before Congress about his involvement in taping the phone calls of journalists and HP employees.
Rather than running his showroom like an office, he ushers clients toward his 1960s Willy Rizzo desk, from which he offers coffee and cigarettes. (This might be the only store in London where customers are free to smoke.) The overall effect feels more like catching up with a friend in a drawing room than conducting a business transaction.
If we do -- if we keep their legacy alive, if we keep faith with the freedoms they died to defend -- then we can imagine a day, decades from now, when another child sits down at his desk, ponders the true meaning of heroism and finds inspiration in the story of a soldier -- Staff Sergeant Robert J.
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An employee who kicks his legs up on his desk and spends a couple hours flipping through Us Weekly will receive a well-earned reprimand from his boss.
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The walnut top of his colonial style desk was marred by water stains from a second-story flood the office suffered months earlier.
He sits, Davros-like, behind his desk which looks as if it has come with him from his chat show and just had a quick paint job.
Hotz tossed a wad of cash from his pocket to the ground and sat with his legs crossed on a desk chair before three giant computer monitors.
With a pencil moustache and hennaed comb-over, the owner, David Wong, presides from a desk in the corner, eyes darting around the shop as his underlings measure, consult and jawbone with the customers.
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Steven Wyner spends the bulk of his days sitting behind his 14-foot-long custom-made desk fielding calls from anxious parents.
To map the 3D environment of a desk or any tabletop, Clark and his colleagues used a Microsoft Kinect that looks down at the desk from above.
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