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Summers arrived at the hotel’s underground garage in a chauffeured sedan and was escorted through the freight elevator up to the 16th-floor presidential suite, where he rendezvoused with the committee. For more than five hours, Summers spoke with the committee, answering questions, offering opinions, and presenting his plan for Harvard University...
...Nevada. But with the state's congressional delegation fiercely opposing the idea, the fight could easily drag on for years. If the site could be built, it would still be necessary to find a safe way to move all the fuel there without unduly imperiling the nation's crucial freight rails...
...implicitly, throughout the book with the older, mysterious, grassroots spread of the tale of John Henry, who may have died in the early 1870s but who is as impossible to identify historically as Odysseus or Robin Hood. As one character notes, "The Ballad of John Henry has picked up freight from every work camp, wharf and saloon in this land; its route is wherever men work and live, and now its cars brim with what the men have hoisted aboard, their passions and dreams...
...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...