"The closing of the mission was very hard," she recalled the other day in her spartan office on the edge of the Garment District.

But the usual plaques were distinctly missing from the bare walls of the spartan office.

We sat in his spartan office, while female engineering students walked to and fro in the gardens outside his window.

An interim government issued opposing decrees from its spartan offices nearby.

"We're all going to see lower growth in the next 10 years," he said from his spartan office.

The single word covered all of Alex's spartan office, where the display volume left space for only a single chair and a small desk.

A little boy in a torn shirt, Hassan Ali, 9, comes into his spartan office with a hacking cough.

It opened with a soft movement of air to reveal the commander's rather spartan office.

As Livesey reviewed his calendar, he looked around his small, spartan office, which is decorated only by two colorful characters.

Dupree looked around the director's spartan office and for the first time felt a twinge of alarm.