Word: fedex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to find an overnight FedEx place!" Riegel said urgently, shaking the envelope in question...
...after the ValuJet plane went down, a Federal Express DC-10 was forced into an emergency landing at Newburgh, N.Y., because of fire in its cargo hold. The captain reported smoke at the same altitude as Swissair 111--33,000 ft.--and began to descend. Eighteen minutes later, the FedEx crew was sliding down ropes and chutes from the plane, which burned steadily for more than three hours after landing. The cause of the fire was never pinpointed, but investigators discovered such undeclared items as aerosol cans and plastic bottles containing acidic liquids, prompting the National Transportation Safety Board...
...Barney's department store in New York City is selling a $595 coat, left, equipped with a pocket lined with a copper-polyamide-polyurethane shield that protects the owner from harmful cellular-phone emissions. It may also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away as Rome.) But what excuse can be made for Mint Balls ($3.99 for two), which will...
...Connor was so peeved at Justice William Brennan for having "hoodwinked" her in a case that she refused to join any of his later majority opinions. And he says Justice John Paul Stevens spent so much of the winter in his Florida condo that he "became the FedEx Justice...
...hottest battle right now is in two-day package delivery, where the USPS has picked a nasty fight with the parcel-delivery services. In TV spots for its Priority Mail, the postal service touts its prices as far below those for the comparable service by FedEx or UPS. Yet the post office can't match their delivery record or track a piece of priority mail from shipper to receiver. An advertising review board rejected a FedEx challenge to the spots last year, but the two rivals remain in litigation. Says UPS chairman and ceo Jim Kelly: "I can hardly imagine...