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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three attorneys visited at a specified time last month. "We had tried to arrange our own date, but we were told that he was a busy man," says Keith Kunene, head of the Black Lawyers' Association. Mandela gave them a tour that included a room where he gets a weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunch With Nelson | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

When Mandela speaks with visitors, Swart sits in the next room, positioned so that he sees Mandela but the guests cannot see Swart. Guests must leave before 4 p.m., when Swart goes off duty. From then until 7 the next morning, South Africa's most famous prisoner is alone.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunch With Nelson | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Postal officials say it is just a coincidence that postal employees have been involved in such mayhem, but the general public might nonetheless wonder if the mail isn't driving the mailman crazy. Psychologist Mark Haffey, who counseled workers after the Taylor killings in California, warned that "two employees identified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Once a backwater of the Federal Government, the Post Office Department was reorganized in 1970 as a semiprivate, quasi-military company called the U.S. Postal Service. With 825,000 employees, it has more troops than the U.S. Army. But pressure is growing from the public as the price of stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Substitute Social Security checks and Christmas cards for fudge caramels, imagine 150,000 annual grievance proceedings and 69,000 disciplinary actions instead of firing, and a picture of the modernized Postal Service emerges. Officials downplay the problems but admit that the new pace is hard on older clerks accustomed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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