Word: stools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense contractor with $11 billion in annual sales charges the Government $1,118.26 for the plastic cap on a stool...
Frazzled urban professionals love them. Once a week Joe Meissner, 39, who runs an executive placement service in San Francisco, reroutes his calls, takes off his vest, loosens his tie and turns himself over to Corporate Stressbusters. They bring the equipment: a stool, a 3-in.-thick black cushion and a pair of hands. "Stress goes right into my shoulders," sighs Meissner. "They knead it all out of me." Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles boast similar services. In New York City, Attorney Peter Kupersmith calls the quarter-hour sessions devoted to his neck and shoulders "miraculous and a crucial part...
...following this morning's cabinet meeting on the government's response to rebel demands. Guingona, the chief negotiator with the Communists, is a vital link holding together the tenuous cease-fire, yet security is lax. The nearest security guard is out on the front steps, sitting quietly on a stool with an M-16 rifle across his knees. He does not check visitors for identification...
Eventually, The Doctor returned to his stool to begin eating his food while I left with Karl. It was then that I realized two things. The first is that to philosophize would be a mistake because the different people in the Tasty are much more interesting than I am; and second that a coffee regular has cream and sugar, (not just cream, which is the way I drink it.) In those two ways my perspective on life had been widened...
...bring about this kind of crossover, but it's a hard job that has frustrated such gifted performers as John Prine and Joe Ely. Still, Earle has strong qualifications. He can sing Springsteen's spooky, poignant State Trooper and make it his own. He looks like the guy one stool over at the truck stop, with a Peterbilt cap and a waistline that has seen a little too much barbecue, but he reads Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway and points out that "you can't write if you don't read...