Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wherever the law permits. Mail Boxes Etc., the largest franchise chain of private postal outlets, with some 600 locations in 40 states, sells stamps, wraps packages, rents mailboxes and transmits copies of documents over telephone lines with facsimile machines. In the lucrative overnight-delivery market, United Parcel Service, Federal Express, Purolator Courier and other companies have claimed about 90% of the business...
...American Express, a new computer system contains the cloned expertise of platoons of specialists who approve unusual credit requests for the company's estimated 20 million U.S. cardholders. For the first time, the computer will decide whether to okay the purchase of, say, a $5,000 Oriental rug by a usually prudent spender -- or nix the transaction on the suspicion that the cardholder is on a buying spree...
...century, including the forefather of what is today's Travel-Holiday, owned by the Reader's Digest. That magazine now has a circulation of 800,000 and remains a sedate, middlebrow Howard Johnson's sort of enterprise. The new action is exemplified by the current industry leader, American Express's upscale Travel & Leisure, a 17-year-old that is still growing briskly, with a circulation of 1.1 million and advertising revenues of $39.5 million. The host of followers has been drawn by the decade-long boom in the U.S. travel industry. This year Americans heading abroad are expected...
Onstage physical stresses can be as fierce as any endured on the football field or basketball court. Actor Mark Frawley, late of Broadway's Starlight Express, had to barrel-jump over five people in the show's opening number. "You're wearing two 4-lb. skates and a costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash...
...playing Goneril and Regan, and who Cordelia? Could this be one of those Orient Express situations in which everyone is the murderer? Everyone has a motive; no question about that. Malcolm goads his whining brood without mercy, taking care to be seen splashing money and champagne in all directions but theirs as he buys racehorses and lolls about the world like a pasha...