Word: expression
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...households last year. Carlin, though, was seen as cut from the old post-office mold and too protective of the organization's bureaucracy. The governors want to move faster toward new cost-cutting technology that could make the U.S. mail more competitive with private services such as Federal Express and United Parcel Service...
Like people who live under military occupation anywhere, those whom visitors can talk to in northern Morazán express views that range from overt cooperation with the rebels to resigned tolerance. One center of support is the area around La Joya, where more than 900 residents were killed in late 1981 in a major assault by government troops. Villagers now flee at every approach of the military, whose last attack they say came on Christmas morning...
...Adams reluctantly concluded in his late 20s that his hands were too small for a concert career. After an encounter with the photographer Paul Strand, he decided to devote himself to his second love, the camera. His mother and aunt were dismayed. The camera, they informed him, could not express the soul. "Perhaps the camera cannot," he retorted, "but the photographer...
...growing number of major U.S. companies, including such firms as Exxon, Federal Express, Greyhound Lines, Southern California Edison, TWA, IBM and Lockheed, require all job applicants to pass urinalysis tests that screen for drugs. Some firms demand that experienced workers undergo such tests when the danger of impairment is simply too great to chance. At Rockwell, company pilots and employees who work with explosives are tested once a year...
...airline. As part of his takeover deal, the new chairman received $250 million worth of wage and work-rule concessions from TWA employees, including the unionized pilots and machinists. Because of its high labor costs, TWA has been hard pressed to compete with such no-frills carriers as People Express and Continental Airlines...