desk jockey

As a sub-editor, page designer and general 'desk jockey' the opportunities for uncovering some earth-shattering piece of news are limited.

The lovely Anne Hathaway is the film's only redeeming feature but even she does not make it worth sitting through this tale of desk jockey Smart (Steve Carell) becoming a real agent and chasing nuclear-thieving bad guys.

"I was aching for a couple of days last time because I'm a desk jockey, not a laborer," Sohm said.

Two weeks ago they considered themselves career desk jockeys. Now they're learning terms like "battle rattle," and the term desk jockey is a distant memory as it becomes obsolete for the rest of the Air Force.

Ben Affleck fills the role previously played by Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin and in 2002 he's only 28 and the cocky young new boy at the CIA - and still just a desk jockey.

After 20 years in racing stables, Britain's best-known groom is now a desk jockey in offices in Newbury town centre.

It is worrying to see suggestions that manual and white collar workers might have different retirement ages, for many in the productive sector the roles are blurred and who will arbitrate, some desk jockey without a clue of this sector?

1 1 1 It appears that our desk jockey friends have yet again been totally out-yomped by a bunch of school teachers!

Hoitz sees his chance after a particularly overzealous stunt by Highsmith and Danson puts the spotlight-hogging cops out of commission, with the desk jockey dragging his Prius-driving, wooden gun-wielding partner Gamble into the fray.

Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor has advised former Flight Lieutenant Cliff Wenzel, DFC, AFC, a veteran of Europe and Korea, that he has been awarded over a million dollars to compensate for loss of a reduced pension denied him in 1961 Wenzel's application was unjustly turned down by a "desk jockey" who reportedly had a dislike to him.

And, with all of MI7's other agents dead (in no little part thanks to Agent English) the only man who can stop him is English, a desk jockey with 007 delusions.

Bratt's character has become a desk jockey, meaning he watches a monitor and tries to look pensive--while somehow still keeping his biceps flexed--as others execute the orders.

Antagonism begins early when the toadying Winter overhears Irwin's putdown of his desk jockey battle inexperience and slowly germinates as the new arrival is reluctantly drawn into opposing Winter's brutal regime.

In a narrative that makes a point of adding insult to injury and scores early laughs in the process, the downcast desk jockey is also being watched by company's efficiency watchdogs.

Childers is to be hung out to dry, and his only hope is his old buddy, soon to retire Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a divorcee, former drunk, sidelined desk jockey and, on his own admission, a weak lawyer.