They will make perfect presents for her daughter's four teachers or an office gift exchange, she says.

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Most American sock exhibitionists, on the other hand (or foot, as the case may be), look like victims of holiday office-party gift exchanges.

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Friedman stresses that gift giving in the office doesn't have to be an expensive ordeal.

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As he cleaned out his office, he came across ten gift cards scattered beneath the files.

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"She would always bring a gift when she came to our office, which is not common, " he said.

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The research was supported by Intel through a gift to UCLA, and by the Office of Naval Research.

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My initial marveling at how cool it was that I could do this from Singapore without schlepping to Borders and then to the post office, turned to helpless anger a month later when the gift hadn't been delivered.

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As a token of that close relationship, Van der Veer has a bejeweled curved Saudi dagger, a traditional gift to boys entering manhood, hanging in his otherwise spartan corner office.

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As a token of his close Saudi ties, Van der Veer has a bejeweled curved Saudi dagger--a traditional gift to boys entering manhood--hanging in his otherwise spartan corner office.

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At the office, Louboutin was inspecting the prototypes for a pair of shoes that he had designed as a birthday gift for the rugby player Gareth Thomas, who announced in 2009 that he is gay.

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