Most of that sum has been for executive office furniture, including a $22019,000 contract for "wood office furniture," according to government procurement documents and first reported by NBC News.
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"Despite the challenges facing the office furniture industry, we believe [Steelcase] has the best risk-reward profile of its office furniture peers," Raymond James analyst Budd Bugatch said in a note.
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The office furniture maker's revenue also came in above forecasts.
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This Wisconsin shop has long sold other companies' office furniture.
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The office furniture maker's revenue came in below analysts' forecasts.
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He ran Steelcase, the office furniture giant, for 20 years.
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The office furniture maker's revenue also fell short of Street forecasts.
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The office furniture maker's revenue also came in above Street forecasts.
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We're transplanted to a shaded patio set rather than stained office furniture.
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Get thrifty Leadership doesn't require fancy sports cars or expensive office furniture.
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Bialek Environments, a company that mostly makes office furniture, won the contract.
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The office furniture maker also saw revenue fall short of Street forecasts.
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West Elm: 20% off select living room, bedroom, dining room and office furniture.
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We had very little capital equipment except for some office furniture and computers.
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Steelcase — Steelcase fell 11.2% after the office furniture maker's quarterly numbers disappointed investors.
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Spending was held down by weak outlays on agricultural machinery and office furniture.
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Homestyle furniture gives an office a personality — and can be cheaper than office furniture.
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It also handles recalls for those products: Everything from craft paint to office furniture.
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Is this the best choice of smartphone, console, bed linen, kitchenware, and office furniture?
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Try re-arranging office furniture, organizing your desk or getting a new work outfit.
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We spoke in a grubby room full of discarded boxes and old office furniture.
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Ordering expensive office furniture on the taxpayer dime (Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carson).
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Office furniture maker Steelcase (SCS) is also out with earnings after today's closing bell.
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They invested $60,000 they had made selling and delivering a family friend's old office furniture.
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Kering had no compost heap, solar panel rooftop, nor office furniture made from scavenged scrap lumber.
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A price system is how businesses compete for office furniture, printing supplies, computers, and everything else.
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Branch sells affordable, modern-inspired office furniture and has manufacturing facilities in the US and China.
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After graduating from college, Ms. Nitzan worked for her family's business, an office furniture company called Aceco.
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The furniture here is quite basic office furniture except for the chairs in front of your desk.
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The office furniture maker's revenue was also above forecasts and the company gave upbeat current-quarter guidance.
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Thus began what would turn into months of relentless ridicule over a simple piece of ergonomic office furniture.
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Hackett was vice chairman of Steelcase, the global leader in the office furniture industry, from 2014 to 2015.
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After a fun hour of rearranging office furniture, I sneak out early to head to a Purim party.
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Business investment also slowed from the previous quarter, with agricultural machinery and office furniture posting the largest declines.
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The office furniture maker also saw revenue beating forecasts and announced a 6% increase in its quarterly dividend.
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It's going to be very stressful for us both, but I'm looking forward to having new office furniture.
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Mr. Hackett, 62, made his reputation as the head of Steelcase, an office-furniture maker based in Michigan.
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The office furniture manufacturer is expected to produce 2800 cents profit per share on $2743 million in sales.
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Instead occupants face one another in seats that resemble nice office furniture, including armchairs and a bench seat.
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Microsoft is teaming up with Steelcase, designers of office furniture, to envision a Surface-powered office of the future.
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Sib Mahapatra is a writer and co-founder of Bureau, an end-to-end office furniture startup in NYC.
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Besides car-parts factories and high-tech startups, the region is the centre of the American office-furniture industry.
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Her company now sells products ranging from home office furniture to vases and will soon expand to sell diamonds.
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The unit has a minimalist look which avoids coming across too much like a piece of ugly office furniture.
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Five men were dead, beaten to death with fists, feet, sticks, and office furniture wielded by a raging mob.
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Retailers like Amazon and Walmart are snapping up space once reserved for makers of office furniture and home flooring.
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They make office furniture for state employees, state license plates, prison uniforms, anything that any state institution might use.
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Her mother is a global product data solutions specialist for Steelcase, an office furniture company, also in Grand Rapids.
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It's understandable that you want to have the latest gadgets, brand new office, comfortable office furniture, and a full-staff.
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MotoArt Studios is well-known among airplane aficionados for their conference tables, office furniture and decorative items such as mirrors.
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He used to bring office furniture to sell in Syria and owned a gallery in the Yarmouk district near Damascus.
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And Ben Carson, Trump's housing secretary, is scrambling to return a $31,000 office-furniture order that he charged to taxpayers.
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The bride's father retired as the president and owner of EckAdams, a company in St. Louis that manufactured office furniture.
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When he got to his office, furniture had toppled over and had partially blocked a hallway as people were evacuating.
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Only a framed newspaper story hanging on the wall hints at the importance of this aged piece of office furniture.
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Shares of office furniture companies Steelcase and Herman Miller rose Thursday after upgrades on both stocks, following their recent earnings reports.
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Darius Mir, chief executive of MIA (Made in America) Seating Corp, a Tennessee based seller of office furniture to Wal-Mart.
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Lighthizer's predecessor, Michael Froman, spent $151,000 on office furniture during a similar time span, according to records reviewed by the Post.
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Steelcase stock plunged nearly 7 percent after the bell, after the Michigan-based office furniture manufacturer reported third quarter financial results.
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A nozzle spurts out plastic spaghetti and weaves it into minimal geometric shapes that look like a progressive architect's office furniture.
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Compared with other business expenditures, "fancy office furniture is tied much more, much more, tightly to the labor market," Cramer explained.
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Steelcase - The office furniture company's shares were up over 5% in extended trading after the company beat earnings and revenue expectations.
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The car giant's new CEO has a track record that includes self-driving cars, office furniture sales -- and hiring a football coach.
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Now, companies could consolidate all of their operations and office furniture in a single building, and that improve accountability, communication and efficiency.
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While at the helm of office furniture maker Steelcase, he was forced to layoff thousands of workers and revive the company's business.
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Steelcase – Steelcase reported quarterly earnings of 22 cents per share, matching Street forecasts, but the office furniture maker's revenue was below estimates.
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They confront their conflict in the healthiest way possible: by yelling at each other until it escalates into throwing various office furniture.
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Mr. Hackett, a former chief executive of the office-furniture maker Steelcase, had been running Ford's activities related to self-driving cars.
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His other line of business is installing office furniture; cubicles, filing cabinets and desk chairs fill the opposite end of the warehouse.
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To the west are office furniture powerhouse Steelcase and Herman Miller, best known for the Eames chair, Aeron chair, and office cubicle.
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The atmosphere is incredible: you'll wander into rooms full of floating bodies, all chanting in unison, set amid otherwise mundane office furniture.
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The office furniture maker's revenue also came in above analysts' projections, and Steelcase forecast better-than-expected results for the current quarter.
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So, naturally, they transformed a piece of office furniture into a pool table — and played a rousing game of Leaf Blower Billiards.
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The company is expected to detail pricing and availability for its Surface Hub 2 hardware, and associated accessories and office furniture from Steelcase.
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In 2008, just as the global economy faltered, I joined office-furniture-manufacturing company Haworth as its head of sustainability for emerging markets.
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Kellyanne Conway spoke out about the couch controversy and offered an explanation as to why she was kneeling on the Oval Office furniture.
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"The last thing people needed when they were laying people off was new office furniture," says Dion, owner of Tech Valley Office Interiors.
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The office furniture maker also saw revenue beat forecasts, and announced a 6% increase in its quarterly dividend to 21 cents per share.
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So I looked on eBay for open-box office furniture and nabbed a Steelcase office chair for $250, which is a 71% discount.
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He has gotten the tire around the stuffed angora goat, which he first saw in the window of a secondhand office furniture store.
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Mr. Hackett, a former chief executive of the office furniture manufacturer Steelcase, joined Ford's board in 2013 and its executive ranks last year.
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Ron Kirk, who held the post from 28500 until 6900, spent $2628,28503 on office furniture in his first 22019 months on the job.
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UNICOR is huge, with sales approaching $500 million and a manufacturing base that includes apparel, mattresses, linens, draperies, office furniture, electronics and printing.
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Nevertheless, Steelcase plans to show off this combination of office furniture worldwide in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Munich, and London.
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On Wednesday, Riley Andreu and a group of her coworkers at office furniture company Humanscale put together this Beyoncé bash for their colleague Katie.
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If you made some big purchases for your company this year, like equipment, computer software, office furniture or certain facilities, you are in luck.
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ET. Food producer General Mills (GIS) issues quarterly earnings this morning, while office furniture maker Herman Miller (MLHR) is out after today's closing bell.
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"When used as a generic answer for work space design, it's terrible," said David Lathrop, a researcher at Steelcase, a big office furniture maker.
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NO matter how you film it, the beige, functional Commodore 64 computer will always seem less glamorous than Knoll office furniture and the swinging 60s.
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"As a younger man, I thought the EU was good," said Simpson, whose company collects office furniture and sells on refurbished pieces and raw materials.
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Herman Miller (MLHR) reported adjusted quarterly profit of 66 cents per share, 8 cents above estimates, with the office furniture maker's revenue also above forecasts.
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Over the last decade and a half, I've scraped by with mediocre home office furniture to the detriment of my body and possibly my soul.
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FT. $496,920 approximate annual rent 1040 Avenue of the Americas (between West 39th and 40th Streets) Manhattan An office furniture supplier, based in Itasca, Ill.
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Mr. Hackett is a former chief executive of Steelcase, the office furniture manufacturer, who joined Ford's board in 2013 and its executive ranks last year.
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Right now their consumer product is live in SF and NYC, but they also offer an office furniture rental service that delivers all over the U.S.
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"This is no longer just a one off, it's a product category," said Thompson Research Group's Kathryn Thompson, an analyst who covers the office furniture industry.
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His Albany, New York-based company sells office furniture and provides interior design services — not exactly in high demand while the economy was taking a nosedive.
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A glimpse inside its front windows reveals time cards still hanging on a wall and brooms sitting on the floor amid a smattering of office furniture.
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Holmes readily volunteered in interviews that her self-described "uniform" — as well as her office furniture and penchant for secretiveness — was borrowed from Jobs, her idol.
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Carson's demands for major upgrades to the outdated office suite with federal laws that prohibit expenditures of more than $5,000 on office furniture without congressional approval.
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And Housing and Urban Development chief Ben Carson still has his job, despite ordering tens of thousands of dollars of office furniture on the taxpayer's dime.
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HUD has received heavy criticism under Carson's watch, including reports of heavy spending by Carson and his wife, Candy Carson, on office furniture and dining ware.
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Steelcase (SCS) beat estimates by 11 cents with quarterly profit of 46 cents per share, with the office furniture maker's revenue also exceeding Wall Street forecasts.
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Darden Restaurants (DRI) is the only earnings report on the schedule for this morning, while office furniture maker Steelcase (SCS) will report after today's closing bell.
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Yeo's palette is subdued, almost ominous: muddled browns, blacks, and blues dominate the foreground, while a pale gray sfumato obscures the Oval Office furniture in the background.
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Office-furniture makers, for example, are experimenting with putting sensors in desks and chairs, so that firms will be better able to monitor when workers are there.
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"And even if you don't have equipment, you can do things like chair yoga or standing push-ups, using nothing but your office furniture," says Dr. Graham.
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Herman Miller — The office furniture maker reported quarterly profit of 64 cents per share, topping estimates by 9 cents a share, although revenue was shy of forecasts.
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The relatively few employees of a Michigan office furniture factory say their jobs have become physically much easier as robots took up all of the heavy lifting.
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Scott Pruitt, above, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been under fire for his spending on things like office furniture and first-class air travel.
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UNICOR is huge, with sales approaching $28503 million, and a manufacturing base that includes apparel, mattresses, linens, draperies, office furniture, electronics and printing — to mention a few.
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Steelcase (SCS) reported adjusted quarterly profit of 36 cents per share, seven cents above estimates, while the office furniture maker's revenue also came in above analyst projections.
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Herman Miller, one of the world's largest office furniture manufacturers, suggests shifting away from using "my office" to "my workplace" to underscore the freedom an open plan brings.
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Herman Miller (MLHR) reported adjusted quarterly profit of 64 cents per share, beating the consensus estimate of 60 cents, although the office furniture maker's revenue fell below forecasts.
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Nearly a year ago, the company named a new chief executive, Jim Hackett, a former chief of the office-furniture maker Steelcase, but Ford has continued to struggle.
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In October of last year, the company laid off a "significant portion of its employees" and by the end of the year they were auctioning off office furniture.
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Ringelsten runs Shorewood Liquidators, which collects all those post-holiday returns—from unwanted gadgets and exercise equipment to office furniture and popcorn machines—and finds them a new home.
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A few months later, he got a job at Steelcase, the world's largest manufacturer of office furniture, and he's been working at its Grand Rapids metal plant ever since.
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Aside from these rather ridiculous options, the touchy-feely online store actually has plenty of health-promoting, average-priced shopping options, like Fitbits, sunscreen and ergonomically correct office furniture.
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Steelcase (SCS) fell 4 cents shy of estimates with adjusted quarterly profit of 15 cents per share, and the office furniture maker also saw revenue fall short of forecasts.
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The dispute centers on KKR's 2014 investment in Aceco, the company founded by Mr. Staley's father-in-law decades ago that had gone from office furniture to data storage.
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U.S. businesses may be showing some signs of weakness, but that shouldn't scare you away from buying the stock of two office furniture companies, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
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James Hackett, a former office furniture executive heading Ford's self-driving car unit, was named CEO last month with a slate of other leadership posts also set to change hands.
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I'm a grown-up human person, who has spent many hours of his life building things: office furniture, websites, a model of the Batmobile from the 1989 Tim Burton movie.
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The project marks a step in a new direction for the designers, who tend to produce works with a more utilitarian quality—like this set of custom decorated office furniture.
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The bride's father works as the vice president for business development at Hi Touch Business Services, a New York-based company that provides office furniture and supplies to various businesses.
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Internal watchdogs have launched at least nine audits, reviews or investigations across several Cabinet agencies, and stories about first-class travel, expensive office furniture, and internal strife have become commonplace.
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Internal watchdogs have launched at least nine audits, reviews or investigations across several Cabinet agencies, and stories about first-class travel, expensive office furniture and internal strife have become commonplace.
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Last year, with profits slumping and its stock price lagging, the company replaced its chief executive, Mark Fields, with Jim Hackett, a former head of the office-furniture maker Steelcase.
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However, the office furniture maker's current quarter and full-year guidance is well below Street forecasts, with HNI citing several challenges including a rapidly changing environment and a difficult operational transformation.
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Attracted to the bland and neutral quality of office furniture, designers Ward van Gemert & Adriaan van der Ploeg decorate found objects, like closets and tables, with one-of-a-kind designs.
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The lakefront town of Holland, home to 33,000 people, has long prospered as a center for the production of office furniture and auto parts — industries assailed by cheaper imports from China.
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For example, you can write off the cost of any equipment and supplies you purchased for the business, such as a computer, printer, office furniture and work supplies like paper and envelopes.
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Not only skilled at advancing policy, Sessions hasn't embarrassed himself by, say, ending up in the press for renting a private jet or ordering office furniture that cost more than your car.
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Wayfair: Up to 70% off select living room furniture and lighting, up to 403% off dining furniture, up to 60% off bedroom and outdoor furniture, up to 50% off home office furniture.
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SIDNEY, Ohio — The 2000-by-2200-inch box sits atop a bookshelf in the district headquarters, as much a part of the office furniture as the manila folders, yearbooks and Webster's dictionaries.
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Herman Miller, the furniture brand behind iconic designs like the Aeron chair, has teamed up with designer Yves Béhar for a new suite of smart office furniture launching today at NeoCon in Chicago.
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In 2016, she had a solo show of sliced-up office furniture (the discarded kind one finds on New York City streets) that was then reconfigured and tagged with bits of spray paint.
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That is why the "Mad Money " host decided to compare two of the biggest players in the office furniture space, Herman Miller and Steelcase, to see which one is excelling in the workplace.
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That is why the "Mad Money" host decided to compare two of the biggest players in the office furniture space, Herman Miller and Steelcase, to see which one is excelling in the workplace.
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Meanwhile, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is embroiled in controversies regarding both overspending on office furniture and, more consequentially, the use of the HUD office to promote his family's business interests.
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My job was in the assembly department, which consisted of taking pallets of raw materials from the warehouse and constructing various items of office furniture according to the specifications on the orders coming in.
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With Strange now picking out office furniture in Washington, D.C., Bentley has the privilege of selecting a new attorney general, a development that has Alabama reporters and political junkies whipped up into a fury.
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"It was amazing to see how his little invention turned into millions of dollars and mass production," Mr. Martin said, recalling a visit he paid to the business before it even had office furniture.
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So in order to accommodate his wishes, the staff sought out to find a more comfortable solution and was contacted by a local plumbing and heating company that was getting rid of its office furniture.
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Last May, Ford's board called on Mr. Hackett, a former chief executive of the office furniture maker Steelcase who had been running Ford's new businesses related to autonomous vehicles, to whip the company into shape.
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As for its set, designed by the remarkable Es Devlin, it doesn't appear to be much more than an outsize glass box, minimally furnished with the remnants of some sleek office furniture and packing crates.
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From office furniture to household products to the cars we drive, technology is constantly changing how we think about the items we interact with every day—and how those interactions can be as seamless as possible.
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During his tenure at the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based office furniture company, he oversaw a great deal of change, which included large-scale job cuts and a redesign of the corporate workspace to be more collaborative.
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Office furniture maker Steelcase Inc last week reported a 230 basis-point fall in the gross margins of its American business in the first quarter due to higher raw materials costs following Trump's metal import tariffs.
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"CloudMinds could not even export office furniture or iPhones from the U.S. to China at this time without a license," said Washington attorney Douglas Jacobson, an export controls and sanctions expert, after Reuters detailed its findings.
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"CloudMinds could not even export office furniture or iPhones from the U.S. to China at this time without a licence," said Washington attorney Douglas Jacobson, an export controls and sanctions expert, after Reuters detailed its findings.
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"Helen Foster is not the only person at Hud that has been persecuted in this witch hunt under your watch," Smallwood wrote, referring to the employee who revealed HUD's spending on office furniture, The Guardian reported.
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The curbs on imported trash have deprived recyclers of about half of what they need to produce the plastic pellets they sell to manufacturers of products ranging from office furniture to sheathes for fiber-optic cables.
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"Helen Foster is not the only person at Hud that has been persecuted in this witch hunt under your watch," Smallwood wrote, referring to the employee who revealed HUD's spending on office furniture, The Guardian reported.
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WeWork will still provide the basics — office furniture, phone booths and conference rooms, some facilities maintenance — but there won't be things like WeWork-branded signage, building-wide happy hours or full-time staff dedicated to the building.
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The New York Times had previously reported that Kevin Chmielewski, Pruitt's former deputy chief of staff for operations, was placed on unpaid administrative leave after refusing to approve Pruitt's requests expensive office furniture and first-class flights.
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Despite a flap over the purchase of some high-priced office furniture earlier this year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has managed to stay under the radar and in the good graces of the President.
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After the first few weeks, it seemed that the founders were paying me mostly to look for new office furniture and order them snacks: single-serving bags of sliced apples, tiny chocolate bars, cups of blueberry yogurt.
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Consider "Good Old Desk," in which our hero delivers a bouncy, staccato love song addressed to a piece of office furniture, or "21976," in which he dramatizes his traumatic upbringing in the form of a rollicking circus ditty.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's immigration minister has said he is ready to sell off his office furniture to pay daily fines rather than honor a court order to issue tourist visas to a Syrian family from war-battered Aleppo.
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And, far from the A-team he promised, he's hired a bunch of pathetic, disgusting swamp schnorrers who can't stop using taxpayer money to fund their office furniture or office redesign or luxury plane trips with their wives.
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Launched in 1995 as a quarterly clearinghouse of office furniture from Delta's corporate headquarters, the surplus sale, which benefits the nonprofit flight museum, has emerged as a go-to for a certain type of connoisseur: The Delta superfan.
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In replacing him with Jim Hackett (pictured), who ran an office-furniture company before joining Ford's board in 2013 and more recently led the firm's mobility unit, Ford hopes to conquer current problems and shore up its future strategy.
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The embattled EPA administrator is also facing investigations into other scandals, including reports that he went around the White House to approve raises for top aides without permission and spent tens of thousands of dollars on bulletproof office furniture.
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The groom's mother retired as a senior risk management analyst at the Hartford, the insurance company in Hartford, and now is the business development manager for the office-furniture installation company in Bristol of her husband, Ronald P. Bunn.
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You can also get up to 70% off living room seating, kitchen and dining furniture, kitchen essentials, wall art, and major appliances such as refrigerators and air purifiers, and 65% off entertainment furniture, outdoor furniture, lighting, accent furniture, and office furniture.
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Last year Mr Ford fired Mark Fields, his chief executive, and replaced him with Jim Hackett, a former boss of Steelcase, a maker of office furniture whose previous experience in carmaking consisted of 15 months as boss of Ford's tech incubator.
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When he stands up, it's revealed his office is actually his living room; his office furniture is in fact a compact IKEA setup; and the lower half of his seemingly work-appropriate attire is a pair of dorky, dad boxers.
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In the Netherlands, IKEA is offering students the rental of a bed, desk, table and chairs for a monthly fee of up to 30 euros ($33.68), while in Sweden and Switzerland it is looking into providing office furniture to companies.
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Designed to fit right on top of your current desk or workspace — no need to part with beloved or custom-built office furniture — this product actually raises your desk surface straight up and down in a smooth and fluid motion.
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"This project will equip key Senegalese police units with an adequate supply of personal protection equipment, office furniture and office supplies to enable them to conduct duties related to specific counterterrorism operation and overall civilian security," according to contract documents.
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Mr. Hackett was hailed for his previous tenure as chief executive — at the office-furniture company Steelcase — but he is facing a tougher challenge in running Ford, a much larger company with 200,000 employees and dozens of plants around the world.
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Having bought office furniture and equipment in recent years, Samuel did not purchase anything last year that qualifies for an immediate write-off known as a Section 179 deduction, as opposed to depreciating the equipment over several years (Line 13).
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Suave ebony office furniture by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, the famous Transat chair by Eileen Gray, silverware by Jean Puiforcat, "Bird in Flight" sculptures by Constantin Brancusi — all transposed to India — did not arrive with the same meanings they had in Europe.
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Discarding the typical rules of propriety has trickled down to the cabinet, whose members have been spending lavishly on private travel, office furniture, tennis tickets, and other forms of government spending more often associated with senior officials in Azerbaijan than the United States.
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Tracks like "Drug Zoo" and "Duster's Blues" come with some heavy "overturned office furniture" vibes, and by the time vocalist Ryan "Hoagie" Hogan gets to the unhinged "Lord and the Stud," it's about time for everyone to get outside and walk it off.
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The European Union recycles only a quarter of the 25-26 million tonnes of plastics waste it produces per year and about half of that was sent to China, which uses recycled plastics to make products ranging from office furniture to cable coatings.
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Colin has created numerous successful games and is the primary force behind Tuckersoft's success, but Thakur still snaps at him to take his feet off the office furniture and sends him out like an errand boy to check up on Stefan's progress.
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RELATED: 6 Easy Ways to Sit Less Every Day Clear the air It's not unusual for office environments to trigger what's known as occupational allergies—sensitivities to chemicals in carpet, office furniture, or paint, for example, that can trigger problems like headaches and rashes.
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Right now, the building still looks like a construction site — there is no trace yet of the fancy office furniture synonymous with tech company offices — and construction workers are in the process of building out the skeleton of the building and installing the windows.
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Gowdy has also scrutinized the spending of two other Cabinet-level officials in Republican President Donald Trump's administration - Ben Carson of the Housing and Urban Development agency over reports of lavish spending on office furniture and Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Founded 10 years ago and inspired by Formula One and Le Mans endurance racing, the race sees teams of three battle it out on ordinary office furniture across two grueling hours to see who can complete the most laps of the 200 meter course.
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She drove to Fairfax with a colleague in her husband's Chevrolet Blazer and took away office furniture, signs, photographs, whiteboards and other objects that could one day be reconfigured to convey the atmosphere of a campaign that had helped elect America's first black president.
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Then the artists animated the interviews — with software downloaded from the internet, of course — and looped cartoonlike footage of the participants' talking heads on monitors set into the underside of desks, so that London gallerygoers have to peer around the banal-looking office furniture to watch.
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The display shows Formafantasma's office furniture made of repurposed electronic components, as well as a video essay and other documents resulting from the studio's extensive research into "planned obsolescence," an idea in commercial design in which objects are engineered to become useless before they wear out.
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Guardian, who has put everything from city property to office furniture, scrap metal and bicycles up for sale, believes ongoing staff buyouts and other cost-saving and revenue-increasing efforts will help appease the state, which had told the city to reduce the cost of its government.
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Whether it's for productivity stuff (like making work stations healthier) or surveillance stuff (like using sensors mounted on desks to track how workers walk around), this whole connected office furniture idea seems less like a fun, Jetsons-inspired future and more like a no fun, George Orwell-inspired future.
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Raymond and his wife, Noemi, introduced Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, and Isamu Noguchi to Hans and Florence Knoll, pioneers of modern office furniture and interior design and founders of the company that bears their name, where the artists became arbiters of 219th-century design, inspiring a generation of woodworkers.
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"The investments are the culmination of a long-range, planned project that began before 2014 to install wall systems in work spaces and replace two-decade-old office furniture in two buildings to achieve improved functionality and gain much-needed additional office space," Ames said in a statement.
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What WeWork didn't say, but what several sources close to the matter have confirmed to Business Insider, is that the toxic phone booths were not simply the result of a random shipment of defective office furniture — the booths were designed and contract-manufactured by WeWork under its Powered by We program.
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At least five officials were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs, in the past year after they raised concerns about Mr. Pruitt's spending and management, which included unusually large spending on office furniture and first-class travel, as well as requests for a bulletproof vehicle and an expanded 20-person protective detail.
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"I think there's a balance between protecting the identify of a sick employee and being transparent with the workforce," says Greg Hayes, CEO and co-founder of Branch, a venture-backed office furniture startup in NYC, who relies on factories in China and has one full-time employee living in that country.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Mónica de la Torre's sixth book of poetry, The Happy End/All Welcome, begins by declaring itself to be "after" Martin Kippenberger's The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika" (1994), an installation of mismatched office furniture assembled on a soccer field for the purpose of conducting job interviews.
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The concerns included unusually large spending on office furniture and first-class travel, as well as certain demands by Mr. Pruitt for security coverage, such as requests for a bulletproof vehicle and an expanded 210-person protective detail, according to people who worked for or with the E.P.A. and have direct knowledge of the situation.
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A record-shattering tab for TV ads, $12 million for a self-created tech firm to rival Donald Trump's digital operation and nearly $333,000 on swank office furniture for his sprawling Manhattan headquarters — that was just a fraction of Mike Bloomberg's budget for the first five weeks of his young, self-funded presidential campaign.
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Or, rather, by doing things — first class airfare, trips to Morocco, bringing a security detail to Disneyland, spending lavishly on office furniture — that seem like waste to people who believe in the EPA's mission, Pruitt can fulfill the conservative movement's mission of starving the EPA of the funds it needs to carry that mission out.
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The concerns included unusually large spending on office furniture and first-class travel, as well as certain demands by Mr. Pruitt for security coverage, such as requests for a bulletproof vehicle and an expanded 210-person protective detail, according to people who worked for or with the E.P.A. and have direct knowledge of the situation.
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Some Twitter users criticized Conway for putting her shoes on Oval Office furniture while others posted photos of former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Breer loves curves, and they are everywhere in the loft, from a mirror that she designed in the living room to a gold Laurel Company lamp ("I'll take that to my grave") to the cream canvas living-room couch and beige mohair chair — early '80s office furniture formerly covered in commercial-grade blue polyester.
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Hackett is thought of as a turnaround specialist: he spent a long period as the CEO of Steelcase, turning it around from a mundane office furniture maker into one whose products essentially evolved with the changing pace of work (for example, from closed, individual offices into open-plan spaces), and also how the products were made.
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The committee attracted such a politically diverse group because it is tasked with addressing the systemic dysfunction plaguing Congress, and member statements shed light on a diverse array of concerns about the legislative branch, running the gamut from staff salaries and retention, outdated technology, and even office furniture, to broader questions of systemic partisanship and federal appropriations.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement, or Nafta, exposed workers in the United States to competition with Mexico, but its passage came in the mid-1990s, just as investment was pouring into the web, creating demand for a range of manufactured goods — office furniture for Silicon Valley coders, trucks for the couriers delivering e-commerce wares.
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A cult of corruption and ethics deficiency, Trump's devotees emulate their leader, with HUD Secretary Ben Carson's $31,000 office furniture, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his doors that initially cost $139,000, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's million-dollar military flights and a 10-day European trip of former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin that mixed meetings with sightseeing.
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Plutocrats to the left of him, scammers to the right: He kept company with a health and human services secretary (Tom Price) who racked up steep bills for unnecessary private planes; a commerce secretary (Wilbur Ross) accused of insider trading; a treasury secretary (Mnuchin) who went eclipse-viewing on the government's time and dime; and a housing secretary (Ben Carson) with a taste for expensive office furniture.
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As a manager, Mr. Davis appeared to be concerned about the dress code ("On days you have to work, and you think you should be off, you wear slouchy dress attire," he complained), idle conversation ("Do your jobs and keep your mouth shut!" he once wrote, in all capital letters) and office furniture ("I am paying you to work — not slouch in your chair with your feet up on a desk or table").
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Instead, as he waits behind a barricade of office furniture for the riot to reach him — at which point, he believes, he will be killed — he recounts episodes from his childhood in Sri Lanka; discusses his career as doorman at the Bearnaise, the upscale apartment building on Central Park West in Manhattan where he found his victims; and relives his triumphs as the editor of the world-renowned "post-penal literary magazine" The Holding Pen.
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A top official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is accusing HUD Secretary Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE of a "witch hunt" against staffers, including the employee who recently revealed Carson's spending on office furniture.
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Trump's signature on the measure comes just after his secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben CarsonBenjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonCarson's affordable housing idea drawing undue flak Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules it says are too lax MORE, reportedly tried to reallocate funds meant for office furniture to commission portraits of some former HUD secretaries to hang outside his office.
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