Word: fedexing
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...nation's second largest railroad and tracking shipments of everything from coal to Wal-Mart clothing. Nine megascreens monitor the flow of goods on 200,000 railcars across 33,000 miles of track--Chinese merchandise rolling east from California, Midwest grain heading west and then to Asia, FedEx packages crisscrossing the nation. Last year this "old economy" business racked up record revenues of $9.4 billion...
Southern-style boiled peanuts to be exact—made fresh from South Carolina’s home-grown raw peanuts and FedEx-ed to all fifty states and even overseas. This valuable service is provided by the Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalog, which has been serving the cause of expatriate Southerners for the last ten years...
...make sure all the Hummers have gas. Most of these people signed up thinking that they would be going to reserve trainings a few weeks out of the year and earning some extra cash doing a patriotic duty. The pilot who flew me into Baghdad had been flying FedEx planes just a month earlier. Now, here we were, screaming through the desert on a C-130, banking back and forth in a series of nauseating maneuvers in order to avoid what he called “smoking fenceposts.” I call them rockets...
...hard to have an afternoon's uninterrupted fun when you are the National Security Adviser. On Nov. 9, Condoleezza Rice, a passionate football fan, was at FedEx Field outside Washington, watching the Redskins play the Seattle Seahawks, when she got a call from L. Paul (Jerry) Bremer, the American proconsul in Iraq. For the better part of two weeks, Bremer and Rice had been discussing how to speed the transfer of power to Iraqis. Both agreed that the matter now required face time with Administration principals in Washington. When the conversation resumed the next day, it took just a quick...
Payday is moving from paper to plastic. Payroll cards, the latest iteration of stored-value cards--like the gift cards you can buy from retailers and give at Christmas--are sweeping into payroll departments at some of the nation's largest companies. McDonald's, Lowe's, Blockbuster, FedEx and Sears, Roebuck are among those writing fewer paper checks and loading value onto cards, which are held by over 1 million workers...