Stanford's Haskell is skeptical about the health benefits of simply standing at a desk, noting that no studies have proved that people who do so lose more weight than their sitting counterparts.
Estate papers of Cyrus Garnsey, Jr. Assessment of property of Cyrus Garnsey Jr. Cyrus Garnsey Jr.'s collected desk notes and small notebook dated "March 4, 1885 - Cleveland and Hendricks Inauguration" Misc.
If you're doing a task where you're likely to get distracted and spend longer than you want to there (for example, on social media, email, or internet searching), take off your watch and put it on the desk, noting what time you started and how long you intend to spend there.
MANDELL -- Erin, your father has written that he keeps on his desk a note you wrote him when you were small: "Dear Dad, I love you.
The "office boys" kept these registers at the front desk to note when residents arrived, when keys were returned, as well as for handling deliveries and other requests.
As I reached for a bottle of Aquafina on the desk, Chris noted that it cost $3.50, adding sourly that to open it might "break the budget".
Borelli had a map of midtown on his desk, and noted that this magazine story was likely to be written and edited in a building whose address is 4 Times Square — an honorific that predates his taking office, two years ago.
On a recent morning, as Mr. Patel's two roommates slept with covers pulled tightly over their heads, he sat at his desk taking notes on Prof. Mark Rush's explanation of the term "perfect competition".
Haley sat at a desk typing notes while Malcolm — tall, austere, dressed always in a dark suit, a white shirt, and a narrow dark tie — drank cup after cup of coffee, paced the room, and talked.
On his desk are notes for a talk he was preparing to give at the Royal Society of Medicine on the Great Killers, an event which would also include papers on the black death, TB, HIV and obesity.
