Word: freighting
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...want to get a sense of a person, without necessarily giving the encounter the heavy freight of an interview for a position," a committee member explained...
Transporting the chickens by plane would work, but the freight bill would push the price of a three-piece dinner into the realm of surf and turf. After two hours of e-mail, phone and fax consultations, Youstin has a solution: vacuum-pack the chicken, for a small additional cost, and keep it fresh enough to survive the extra four days of shipping. From the corporate headquarters, Youstin can quickly access the company's experts and key decision makers to craft a timely fix. Explains her boss, international COO Anthony Pavese: "We are ground zero. We have centralized the information...
Moore had struggled to put together a complete game like that all season. Standing 6'2, 205 lbs, he motors like a freight train on the ice with excellent hands, shot and playmaking ability. Unfortunately, on most nights this year, only one side of Moore would come to play, and usually that would be the physical aspect of his game...
...years of spotty service, many observers think Amtrak's termination wouldn't be such a bad thing that only by opening up train service to the free market will high-speed rail have a real shot at success. Since it was cobbled together from the ruins of the freight railroads' dying passenger business in 1971, Amtrak has chugged through $23 billion in federal funds and been plagued by an entrenched bureaucracy, pork-barrel politics, high labor costs and stagnant ridership--all the things, in short, you might expect from a state-run monopoly...
...help prop up its balance sheet, Amtrak is busy building its mail and express business, which hauls letters, packages and even freight for such clients as the Postal Service and UPS. Within a few years, that too could bring in a few hundred million dollars in additional revenue...