Word: expression
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...first evening in Jamestown, before giving in to Applebee's, I had asked Ryan, the clerk at my Holiday Inn Express, if any there were any local restaurants nearby...
Nolan sponsored a resolution asking the committee to express “concern over the increased gap in achievement...
Fadi Ghandour, CEO of Aramex International, a company based in Amman that competes with the likes of Federal Express and DHL, didn't have oil money to back him. Ghandour founded the firm in 1982 after studying at George Washington University. His plan was to become the Middle East middleman for the big U.S. and European shipping firms...
Aramex made its name in part by going where others feared to tread, getting mail across Beirut's green line during the Lebanese civil war and using donkeys to get parcels past Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. Ghandour got his break when FedEx and later Airborne Express made Aramex their Middle East partner. The U.S. firms gave Aramex invaluable lessons in everything from quality control to technology. When DHL acquired Airborne and dropped Aramex, Ghandour learned another lesson: the turnaround. He got busy marshaling the regional players that Airborne had left in the cold into a new alliance...
...commute to a screeching halt. Before he even knew the details, before the first images of bloodied bodies spilling from shattered train carriages flashed across television screens, Shah was dialing his friends from the bank where he works, hoping to hear the voices of those who had taken the express trains home that evening. He was met with silence...