The "that's all," "please bore someone else... ...... catchphrases; her coat-tossing on Andrea's desk and discarded steak lunch are retained from the novel.
The customary resident of that desk, the dip pen with metal nib, retained the elegance of the goose quill & saved the geese.
"The process of deciding to leave the practice had always been hovering back there in my mind for many years," he said during a recent interview at his corner office at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he retains a desk despite having resigned in January after 37 years.
By the time I got back to my desk, she had called, and she agreed to be interviewed if a lawyer she had retained thought it a safe thing for her to do.
Hot-desking - the idea that employees don't retain a fixed desk in an office - is a key part of organisations' move towards cheaper, more flexible workplaces.
If the company is really going to retain and regain classroom desk space, it's going to do so with the simple, the familiar and the affordable.
Even now, some Citigroup bankers recount the glory days of Citicorp, while old hands on its bond trading desk answer their phones "Salomon Brothers!" Mr. Weill also struggled to retain his best managers.
She is muzzled occasionally, and chained to her desk; and all the classes are tests, to see what information the children retain and understand.
His surroundings notwithstanding, he retains a sense of minimalism, with almost-empty bookcases and a bare desk except for some stray papers and an empty tube of Airborne, the immune-system booster.
