Word: windowless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trade calls smalls: candlesticks, glassware and other such collectibles. He's still got the store, but today his business--and his life--revolve around a warehouse a few miles away, where he stores the treasures he has gleaned from scouting estate sales and flea markets. From a cramped, windowless cubicle, he monitors the hundreds of auctions he has posted--moving anywhere from $40,000 to $75,000 a month. He has hired a full-time employee to oversee his eBay business and plans to move to a new space complete with a miniprocessing center...
...windowless brownstone club house, Bush and a collection of Bonesmen including a Rhodes scholar and a gold-medal swimmer, mused over their life stories and their sexual histories as part of the club's bonding ritual...
Voss, universally known as P.V., climbs up to the windowless weight room above the gym for her morning workout: abdominal crunches in sets of 20, leg presses and toe raises, free weights for working her obliques. She's thinking about tonight's school-board meeting. A survey last year found that most people in town are happy with the schools--which she considers a challenge. "That could mean they're less willing to spend more to improve them...
...laying out more than $55.3 billion annually--almost twice what they spent in the mid-1980s--on training. And the hottest new training device is the offsite, a company- or department-wide session away from the office. But today's offsite isn't a few meetings in a windowless hotel banquet room followed by a round of golf and cocktails. More likely it's built around a truly exotic challenge, like white-water rafting, tightrope walking, adventure racing, even cooking. The common denominator: it's a group task unrelated to work...
Kenneth Starr, who, in his interviews with TIME, compares himself to the fabled tortoise, turned out to be more enduring in his own relentless quest to frame the debate as a public, legal and constitutional issue. I visited with him earlier this month in the windowless beige conference room where every weekday this year he marshaled his troops in pursuit of Bill Clinton. He insisted that he had been falsely caricatured and thus agreed to spend hours last week with Michael Weisskopf and Eric Pooley as well as to open his office to photographer Karin Cooper...