And because the American people deserve to know that special interests aren't larding up legislation with pet projects, both parties in Congress should know this: If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it.
In my study I avoided my irritating desk with its neat binders containing bar charts and statistical tables and sat motionless in the leather chair, looking out the window at the leaves of hydrangea bushes.
As I tap into my third iMac with my iPad and iPhone on the desk next to it, we have never regretted making a huge shift in our buying habits, gravitating towards smaller (or smaller-appearing) establishments, while going to big box stores to merely kick the tires and then see what we can buy online.
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On my first day I came down with my clubs and told the front desk I was playing golf, and asked how to get to the golf club.
My desk is covered with cards from mums saying 'I'm so proud of myself for doing it'.
After two years, my teaching contracts ended, so I said hasta luego to my life on the Iberian Peninsula and moved back in with my parents to work a nine-to-five desk job in Washington DC, dealing with financial reviews, company deadlines, terrible co-workers and fax machines that never worked.
So when a review copy of Top Spin 4 recently landed on my desk, I greeted it with mixed emotions.
About a dozen press releases crossed my desk in the past month with CEOs announcing tens of thousands of jobs they intended to offer to veterans.
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And I had to be at my desk, at my office, with the first cup of coffee, a legal pad and write the first word at 5:30, five days a week.
He built a miniature workshop desk so my brothers and I could play with craft tools beside him.
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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.
When a letter landed on my desk addressed to the BBC Technical Correspondent, I opened it with care.
"I actually have my boarding pass framed now, and it's sitting on my desk, right next to a little prayer book I keep with its page turned to Psalm 23, " he said.
And what better way to do so than to throw myself into a practice (a seemingly good idea while seated comfortably at my Manhattan desk), attend a pep rally and stand field-side with the Sea Gals during the NFC Championship game on Jan. 22.
He also got me thinking about a box that has been sitting on my desk for several weeks: A Microsoft Touch Mouse, which features a surface studded with touch sensors, so you can perform gestures on the mouse, the same way you might on a touch pad.
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