Word: faster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automate to move more than 160 billion pieces of mail a year with ever greater efficiency. New machines have reduced handling costs from $15 per thousand letters to $3 per thousand. Despite automation, human hands still touch most letters 14 times. Automation means they just have to do it faster. "The stress is tremendous," says American Postal Workers Union President Moe Biller...
...short to allow Deputies to attend the funeral, Gorbachev intervened, noting that "we ought to pay our respects to Andrei Dimitreyevich." Approached by reporters, Gorbachev delivered a eulogy of his own, hinting at his genuine feelings for the man who had so often challenged him to move further and faster toward overhauling their struggling country. "It is a great loss," he said. "You could agree or not agree with him, but you knew he was a man of conviction and sincerity. He was not a political intriguer. I valued this...
...three-time top-ranked player in Israel. Farokh Pandole, after twice winning the Indian Junior Nationals, quickly adapted to hard-ball squash last year to climb high on the ladder. And speaking of rapid adjustments, sophomore Mark Baker, a transfer student from England, adjusted to American squash faster than a rolling "O" to secure the number-one seed...
Since World War II, TIME has been a global magazine in every sense of the word. Our foreign business, which has nine editions with a total circulation of 1.4 million, is now growing faster than ever. International revenues have increased by 30% in the past two years, and represent 25% of the magazine's total. The economies in Asia are booming, Western Europe is aiming for greater integration in 1992, and Eastern Europe promises new opportunities. All this makes the need for immediate information more important, and that enhances TIME's role as the leading international newsmagazine. This in turn...
...rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who were faster to draw up a concise list of demands, have been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children...