Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traditional grocery store is morphing into a catering hall-delivery service. Last month A&P announced that hungry Web surfers can view full menus and in-store specials, and order prepared meals online from one of the company's 700 stores. Restaurateurs are developing delivery systems that can dispatch linguini al dente with alacrity...
...after all, capable of reading one to three books daily while pouring out an estimated 150,000 letters and conducting the business of the presidency with such dispatch that he could usually spend the entire afternoon goofing off, if his kind of mad exercise can be euphemized as goofing off. "Theodore!" Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was once heard shouting, "if you knew how ridiculous you look up that tree, you'd come down at once...
Monicagate is still very much alive, observes Slate's Scott Shuger, who ledes his Friday dispatch with USA Today's version of Kathleen Willey's lawyer's spin control. To balance it out, Shuger turns to the Wash Post and its Bob Bennett salvo in the Jones case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch...
...FAITHFUL Time Correspondent Teddy White was aboard a U.S. bomber as it made a Christmas Eve visit to the Japanese troops in China. Afterward he cabled the following dispatch: We crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear sharp shadows...
...will dispatch an operator to the site, survey the area of concern and then act accordingly," MacCurtain said, recommending that students leave a contact name and phone number to speed up the process...