Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know we're not normal," Jerry Yang says with a boyish grin, making a halfhearted effort to straighten up his cubicle for his visitor. It's not much of an office by mogul standards: just a nondescript desk, a couple of cheap plastic milk crates bulging with papers, an old futon. Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking...
...recent Forum weekend in a nondescript room on Manhattan's East Side, 52 men and 47 women gathered for a variety of reasons. The meek sought a voice; the proud, humbling; the lonely, companionship. All had signed a form stating that they are mentally and physically well. It is important that attendees be healthy. The Forum, which costs $350, still requires endurance. It consists of three 12- to 16-hour days--with time out for meals--and (after a one-day breather) a one-evening wrap...
About three weeks ago, I spent a weekend at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel for the annual Harvard Model United Nations conference. On Saturday night, I was very tired and decided to head back to my room at Harvard. I got into a nondescript cab in front of the hotel. The cab driver charged me 50 cents for putting my bags in the trunk...
...Rating: [One Khomeini] You'd think the network that brought you the Gulf War could do better. Investigating is too mild a verb; it suggests a medical checkup. The gray border is monochromatic and nondescript, like something stamped on an official document or government-approved meat...
...perhaps, the most diverting destination serviced by the MBTA. Many of the most prominent signs in town announce the distance to Lexington, and at midday the busiest stretch of the sleepy streets is the outbound to Boston commuter rail station. But just steps from the train stop, in a nondescript office building overlooking the deserted Waltham common, pulses the heartbeat of one of Boston's most exciting cultural events...