"This is kind of old, isn't it?" he said, holding a folder with a six-year-old bill for $2,644 from a Citibank credit card.
"So the number of people standing in line to get a decision from Putin is so large that the person in that line holding a folder with the name Navalny on it has to wait a very long time".
Mr. Stedman envisions things like using one finger to "hold" a folder and another to flick e-mail messages into it, or adjusting the volume on a PC by "twisting" a knob instead of mousing over it.
When I was about fourteen, I stood outside science class holding a folder that was decorated with an array of faces which I had carefully cut out from the pages of music magazines.
Ms. Kernick, the lawyer, was at the wheel, and the son, Charles A. Harris, who is 73 and lives in Washington, sat in the back seat holding a folder full of his father's pictures.
But the men accused in that plot were released following a severely compromised investigation; the head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorist squad had been photographed on his way into a meeting holding a folder with the details of the alleged plot and the police plans to foil it.
"Instead, I stood at the table, held a folder in front of me, and spoke for 20 to 25 minutes without a single note.
Yet this month he was walking the halls of the Capitol, wearing an advocacy group's pin on his suit jacket and holding a folder of fact sheets as he visited lawmakers to push for a new law on climate change.
He held a manila folder in his lap, and whenever he saw something he didn't like he noted the location in large loopy script.
He held a plastic folder that he explained was full of papers signed by former military and intelligence people who were out of jobs and who, in his words, "felt abandoned".
