She counted off four hundred-rupee notes, which she put down on the desk before Mr. Pai.

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You know, I've heard him say frequently over the past 70 days that the decisions that land in his lap or the decisions that are put on his desk to make are the hard ones.

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Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever.

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But, again, try to put yourself on the other side of the desk and imagine that you have 15 candidates to evaluate for one job.

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And I have said time and time and time again to Congress that, send me the DREAM Act, put it on my desk, and I will sign it right away.

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You can then put the visitor in a smaller, lower, and fixed chair on the opposite side of your desk.

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When I first put the partial cremains of my father in a Tupperware sandwich box and placed it on my writing desk, that was the joke I felt like telling.

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Abramson put her purse down on a white Formica desk that she occupies in the middle of the third-floor newsroom.

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Obama said he would make the government "open and transparent" and put any bill that ends up on his desk online for five days before he signs it.

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And by putting the two candidates behind a desk, and in effect hiding their lower bodies, it put all the focus on their facial expressions and a few gestures.

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