"Neal has been in the office and then back out in the field being a talent evaluator.
Early this month, a buyer for Qwest Communication International's 32-story office tower backed out after losing his financing.
"When Eugenie Bouchard won her semi-final everyone put down what they were doing to watch and applause broke out across our office back in Toronto.
She was not forced out, could again control her funds, and was given her office back.
Well, in the past two decades, they have come out of the back office, out from under the machines.
But integrating the two firms' back offices turned out to be much harder than expected.
The trim campus buildings, painted to harmonize with the neighborhood earth tones, suggested a medical office-park; out back were an organic garden, a climbing wall and a well-kept athletic field fringed by big peach-colored homes.
Perpetually clad in New Balance sneakers and suits that are just slightly askew, he dashes in and out of meetings, from East Room news conferences to the Oval Office and back again, out through the South Portico and into the White House vegetable garden — all while scrambling to blend into the background and record nearly every moment with his video camera.
She is also very good at these little vocal jumps, wherein she pops into another register for a single note, softly but palpably, as if she's craning her head into your office, grinning, and then ducking back out.
And sometimes there's no alternative but to get sucked into the plot, as with "A Postcard to Nina," about a guy who poses as his lesbian friend's boyfriend, for her father's sake, only to find himself hounded by the father — "He says he just wants to say hi/I send back 'Out of office' auto-replies" — and besotted with the friend.
