And when Dick Cheney accidentally pops Harry Whittington, old Harry Reid jumps up from his Senate leader's desk faster than a Nevada jack rabbit to announce, one more time, that this 'is part of the secretive nature of this administration'.
Get under the desk, be fast!
Nervously shuffling the few items on his desk, he spoke fast, as if there were no more time to lose: "It's no coincidence that the first ritual slaughter happened here.
The bar where Jack is tempted by the spirits of the hotel is replaced by the ordering desk of the fast-food chicken restaurant in which the movie takes place, and every second of the five minutes is stuffed to the brim with chickens.
In the "open space," where we went to use the Internet, a man was slumped over a desk before a window, fast asleep, a paper cup of free coffee cooling at his elbow.
The personal-computing market is shifting fast, from desk-bound to mobile and from mouse-and-keyboard to touch.
Some crouch down behind desks while others run fast for the exits.
Recession always leads to longer office hours, so with workers spending more time at their desk, products need to be fast".
According to a guide, on a preview tour, 80percentnt of customers will use self service check in kiosks and fast bag drop desks.
To outsiders, the world's favourite tourist destination embodies the triumph of pleasure over desk-slavery, slow food over fast, the life of the flâneur over that of the frenetic.
