Word: del
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crossing into the U.S. near the Texas town of Del Rio, I spot an old mailbox that U.S. Customs has converted into a drug drop. DEPOSIT CONTRABAND HERE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES reads a sign in language that seems more suitable for an antilittering campaign. The lock on the mailbox is rusty, and a spider has built a formidable web over the chute where any law-abiding, English-speaking drug smuggler would drop his neat little packet of cocaine or heroin. While the mailbox is an extreme example of bureaucratic wishful thinking, the larger U.S. approach...
...train stations around the country have been renovated. They have been transformed into museums or municipal office buildings or restaurants. Happily, some of the old depots where trains still stop have also been refurbished: New York City's Grand Central is undergoing a / partial restoration, and in Wilmington, Del., and Philadelphia, once run-down train stations are back in order...
...workday used to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. for all 46 workers in the compensation and benefits division at Du Pont's corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Since July, the unit's employees have trickled in between 7 and 9:30 a.m., chosen a half-hour or one-hour lunch, and left between 3:30 and 6 p.m. -- as long as they have put in eight hours each day. Secretary Joann Wolanski, 28, picked an early shift; she begins at 7:30, takes a half-hour lunch and leaves at 4. The result: more time...
Harvard will have to replace Diana Edge '88, one the best players to play the game. Also Jenny Holleran, number-two player last season, is taking the year off. Freshmen Brooke Bailey of Newark, Del., Carrie Cunningham of Gross Point, Mich., and Mary Greenhill (men's squash player Bobby Greenhill's younger sister) of Greenwich, Conn...
...Judiciary Committee has tentatively scheduled a vote to recommend Thornburgh for Wednesday afternoon, according to an aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Ma.), who chaired the hearings in the absence of Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del...