Word: fedexing
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...tried to respond to the news on a high level--to express gratitude that nobody was seriously injured, to listen thoughtfully to interviews about whether the incident has anything to teach us about improving runway safety--but I couldn't help wondering whether that plane was carrying an important FedEx package for me. Who from? How am I supposed to know...
When my wife finally persuaded me that a FedEx plane bringing electronic supplies from Anchorage was unlikely to have contained anything I desperately needed, I began thinking about the personal implications of a tiny news item I'd seen in the Toronto Globe and Mail about bears in Banff National Park...
...McAllister says President Clinton, stung by flak he took for intervening in the baseball strike two-and-a-half years back, won't be stepping up to this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction of usual deliveries, as the stalemate becomes a stage for the Labor vs. Corporate America battle over the use of part-time workers...
Finally, in accordance with the spirit of the 90s, the idea of corporate sponsorship would have to be entertained. How would we feel if Harvard went the way of the FleetCenter, the FedEx Orange Bowl, and the Philip Morris Republican Party...
Aren't they beautiful? Aren't they beautiful?" Daniel Petrocelli repeated the words in the "clean room" as he stared at the 30 different pictures that had just emerged from a FedEx package and were spread out on an oval table. It was the middle of the Christmas recess in the O.J. Simpson civil trial, and the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs was admiring a present. There, shown 30 times over on Simpson's feet, was what the attorneys would argue was a pair of rare size-12 Bruno Magli shoes, the Lorenzo model, with the distinctive stitching, seams...