Inside many doors, windows and desks are broken.
"Our school desks are broken and fans are out of order.
Some of the drawers of Mr. Augusto's wooden desk are broken.
If someone says, "The mouse on the desk is broken," your mind calls forth a different image than if you hear, "The mouse on the desk is eating cheese".
Of those who completed a baseline survey, 11 completed a follow-up questionnaire, three left the organisation or were on extended leave, two expressly requested to be withdrawn from the study, one failed to respond regarding the follow-up and one person's desk was broken from the outset.
Not too far down Garland's list must have been the Miami coaching staff's trashing of the stadium's visiting coaches' box; a desk was destroyed, chairs were broken and holes were punched through a plaster wall.
He said there were reports of unmanned desks at immigration during peak times and iris scanners that were broken.
These were private rooms, not open to the public, not arranged to look like scenes from the past but with the past and the present simply jumbled together: a cheap little wireless set balanced on a pile of leather-bound books, a milkman's calendar among the silver-framed photos on a desk whose rolltop was broken, an ordinary electric fire in a huge marble fireplace dirty with wood ash.
They shot my desk, the wall - there was broken glass, the wall was broken".
Once the news is broken, employees return to their desks, where some celebrate, others sulk and still others trade gossip via the firm's internal instant-messaging system.
