By contrast, the computer screen on Forbes's desk displayed a graph that suggested mounting doom.
Until last week, the screen beside his desk displayed an encouragingly steep drop from left to right.
Correction: December 13 , 2002 Friday An article on Monday about the Kennedy Center Honors misstated Thomas Jefferson's connection to an antique desk displayed in the State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, the site of an award dinner.
The campaign, including the desk display, was conceived by the Manhattan-based marketing agency SS&K.
Instead of family pictures, Dr. Warren's desk displays a framed photo of a fragile X chromosome.
A camera on his desk displays the comings and goings outside his office, where he usually keeps the blinds drawn.
"The way I see it," said Mr. Bridwell, whose glass-top desk displays membership cards from the Republican National Committee, "is that we're getting these homes back into private hands".
The prospect of death is real enough: a vast computer screen on his desk displays input from multiple CCTV cameras.As a powerful regional leader, Mr Umakhanov sneers at Magomedsalam Magomedov, who was appointed Dagestan's president without consultation with local strongmen.
So the real money seems to be the sale by S L D Industries of what its mailing calls "museum quality" wall hangings and desk displays, presumably intended to impress clients.
For your correspondent, the conversion began a year and a half ago, when he moved his office from rented space into his basement, purchased an adjustable standing desk and, shortly afterwards, a flat treadmill designed to work at low speeds underneath the desk while displaying miles walked.
