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  • I have a question for you: In your example, which office-work plays the part of the mass-murdering psychopath who's holding all of the other office workers hostage?

    Why Most Economists Are Hawks and Why They Might Be Wrong, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Philogynist not sure how it happened, and the why isn't important, but philogynist has become so engrossed in office-work that he had forgotten that it is a long weekend.

    Philogynist 2008

  • Even in outlying counties, settled office-work began to take hold before the Civil War.22

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Even in outlying counties, settled office-work began to take hold before the Civil War.22

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Even in outlying counties, settled office-work began to take hold before the Civil War.22

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Perfect for stompy goth evenings (question: How -- does it feel? answer: "It hurts."), and acceptable for office-work.

    it's too early for this crap 2004

  • Parliament, of his office-work; but he gave her no encouragement to speak of such things, and, as he pleaded that he was ill, she left him in quiet on the sofa.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • It was absolutely necessary that he should make some arrangement with him as to a certain branch of office-work; and though it was competent for him, as the superior, to have sent for Norman as the inferior, he thought it best to abstain from doing so, even though he were thereby obliged to face his enemy, for the first time, in the presence of others.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • Four days later he again remembered that he had stopped smoking, but he was too busy catching up with his office-work to keep it remembered.

    Babbit 2004

  • Today, when you came to see me after office-work was done, I felt afraid even to raise my eyes to yours, for you looked so pale and desperate, and your face had so fallen in.

    Poor Folk 2003

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