21.   Volume diminishes as traders and investors leave their desks before the Christmas holiday weekend, which means the market rises on weaker than usual demand.

22.   Web surfers can take a stand for the environment without leaving their desks or opening their wallets.

23.   With their own passwords, the expert mentors can look in on a student project and ask a probing question or offer a suggestion without ever leaving their desks.

24.   It adds extra dimension to the telephone, enabling you to build an effective rapport both inside and outside your business, without leaving your desk.

25.   One has been visited by only a few people and one can be enjoyed without leaving the desk.

26.   Some employees went inside, but many left their desks and staged a sit-in protest inside the complex.

27.   U.S. delegates had left their desks at the conference Monday afternoon.