When a company becomes a headline risk situation, journalists and their copy desk colleagues salivate.

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As her acting career waned, she worked as a financial journalist (including 16 months on the FORBES copy desk).

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When the news really excited him, he would pound his fist on the rim (a horseshoe-shaped copy desk), then jump on his desk and wave his arms with utter joy.

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Then Starkweather wanted to make what he called a photo-typesetter, which produced camera-ready copy right on your desk.

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It's still confidential, but a copy has landed on my desk.

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So when a review copy of Top Spin 4 recently landed on my desk, I greeted it with mixed emotions.

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As if to admonish himself from making the same mistake, Barrow keeps a photo of Richard Nixon attached to a signed, original copy of Nixon's resignation speech above his desk.

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The boss of one of the biggest American firms complains that a copy of one of his proposals ended up on the desk of a Japanese rival.

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Chances, are, however, you keep a backup copy of your operating system on an optical disc in the desk drawer, just in case.

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