A Paleolithic front-desk index-card reservation system held sway until 1989, and elevator operators kept cranking open the doors until the early 1990's.
Alone in the bedroom study, Nathan spots, on the wall above Lonoff's desk, an index card on which there is a quotation from a story by another fastidious master: "The Middle Years" by Henry James.
For General Manuscripts, there is a binder at the reference desk with indexes by date and by language.
At two of the groupings of desks, place an index card with the following instructions written on it: Your group represents a minority population in your country.
At the other two groupings of desks, place an index card with the following instructions written on it: You represent a government that has been waged war upon by a minority group in your country.
Taking the example of a hotel front-desk clerk, the index identifies nine jobs that involve most of the same skills, only three of them in the hospitality industry, expanding the reach of the potential labor pool by ten-fold.
4. Put a mirror over your desk. 5. Make your index finger into the shape of a gun.
Put statements of productive conditions on small index cards (desk is clean and neat, bed is made, clothes are set up for tomorrow, bills are current, laundry is done, next meal is organized, dishes are done).
When the Shanghai exchange opened its first proper trading floor just across the Garden Bridge in what, before 1949, had been the grand old colonial Astor Hotel, it was a mind-bending experience to gaze out over the traders' desks to the electronic index boards (some of the first I had seen in China!) where the share prices of the few score listed companies were displayed.
The groom, 29, is the head of the stock index options trading desk at Citigroup in New York.
"Nasdaq has never had and never addressed a market-clearing open and close, meaning that a price is set that satisfies all market orders on the close or open," said the manager of an index arbitrage trading desk at a major Wall Street firm who spoke on the condition that he not be identified.
