The desk-top, and to a certain extent the mobile screen, limit the creativity of users.

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Even having access to cordless, rather than desk-top phones would help, added Dr Minkoff.

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NYSE, transacts around a fifth of all retail-trading volume in Nasdaq shares such as Amazon.com with software that runs on a desk-top computer.

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My mom, who is writing a memoir based on letters her dad sent back from WWII, works at the same roll-top desk my dad first used as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s.

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The new chassis design has a convenient recess desk on top with a non-slip surface for charging smartphones and cameras.

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Everyone loves shorts and flip-flops especially if you start the interview by kicking the flip-flops up on top of the interviewer's desk, then yawning loudly before opening a tin of Pringles.

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The walnut top of his colonial style desk was marred by water stains from a second-story flood the office suffered months earlier.

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Plank's son Roger, 42, who serves as chief financial officer, keeps a reminder of those days on his desk: a small vial of foul-looking water with a thin layer of crude oil on the top.

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