The devolution of powers from Westminster is just one item for the mayor's overflowing in-tray.
Mr Papandreou may yet defy the polls but whoever takes power in March will find his in-tray overflowing.
Task number one in the in-tray of the police commissioner is convincing people it is all worth it.
But she has returned to Berlin facing a worryingly high in-tray.
Candidates for more everyday roles within the civil service are given a bulging in-tray filled with documents of varying importance, and not enough time to clear it.
Of course, old problems, such as Iran, can rapidly force themselves back to the top of the president's in-tray, and old European allies still command the most trust.
In her first months in charge Yingluck has had to deal with a busy in-tray, including responding to some of the most severe monsoon floods to afflict the country in living memory.
The Microsoft antitrust case, decided by her immediate predecessor, Mario Monti, was one of the first and biggest items in Kroes' in-tray when she became head of the European Competition Commission in 2004.
Another item for David Cameron's in-tray.
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There an American passport partially hidden by an in-flight meal tray strewn across the footpath.
Here, a bewildering number of categories - from "biggest onion" to "best crocheted matinee jacket" and "best mini-landscape, in a tray, made of eggshells and toilet roll" - showcases the skill and ingenuity of the community.
Now, about that little bulge at the base of the screen... just run your fingers beneath it to liberate a built-in, lighted disc tray "without so much as a whisper" ready for DVD or CD playback -- DivX, MP3, JPEG and Video CDs all supported.
About 35% of Californian raisins were harvested in 2008 using the continuous-tray system and another 15% dried completely on the vine.
For example, the Cover Feed looks fantastic on tablets -- "it looks like a gorgeous personalized magazine about your friends" says Mosseri -- but neither viewing a massive 16 x 24 grid of icons in the app tray nor making a six-inch swipe to remove a Chat Head provides an ideal user experience.
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These apps can also be accessed by clicking on a pop-up that hides along the bottom of the cube screen, in the main app tray, or they can be placed on the desktop -- which is the first thing you're going to do if you use them anyways, making the two "cube" menus totally redundant.
He carries sachets of yellow-blue vitamin capsules in a wide white metal tray.
Good luck then, to the new boss, who has protesters on the roof - and some very difficult decisions in the in tray.
When ergonomics took off in the mid-1990s, King came up with a keyboard tray that had no knobs.
As for that application tray -- Samsung has placed it, in its fashion, along the left hand edge of the screen instead of at the bottom, which is customary for Android.
It seemed both unresponsive and lacking in accuracy -- at times we had trouble even dragging open the notification tray.
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Inside, you can slot a tray of watch battery-sized weights, which pop in and out to adjust the thing to a suitable level, up to 30 grams.
We grabbed a tray of steaming-hot school refectory-type fare in the sparse dining room before retiring to our cabins, which varied from 22-bunk hostel-style rooms with shared bathrooms, to simple two-bunk rooms with an exterior window and private bathroom.
This time a single rook was presented with the same tray-string set-up, while its pair waited in a neighbouring cage linked by a one-way flap.
In this particular 15-second spot, a good-looking dude brings a vegetable tray to a football-viewing party, much to the eye-rolling dismay of the hostess.
The first place to look for programs to nix is the system tray, the row of tiny icons next to Windows' clock in the bottom-right of the Taskbar.
If shutting down an application frees a lot of memory and doesn't cause problems, look at the listings in the System Configuration Utility's Startup tab for those same tray programs you deem unnecessary--for example, the RealPlayer StartCenter.
Ms. Brickman, the daughter of a police chief and a stay-at-home mom in Mentor, Ohio, was selling shots of vodka and Red Bull from a tray.
Mr. Graves and I were sitting in the glass-roofed room just off his kitchen, which boasted an Alessi kettle, toaster, tray, cream set and pitcher a kind of Michael Graves product show.
There is no menu - instead, a gigantic tray piled with white bowls, each of which our waiter describes in careful English.
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