Word: journeyer
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...system's most profitable service, and could replace 25% of "snail mail" by 2000. At the same time, post office technology continues to lag far behind that of document and parcel movers like Federal Express and United Parcel Service, which can electronically track items through every stage of their journey. UPS alone delivers more than 80% of all packages shipped...
Upon arriving at Harvard, many first-years are anxious to begin the journey down medicine lane. But armed with only one personal goals--the desire to become a doctor--they don't know how to go about achieving...
...Secretary Robert Rubin met on Dec. 18 with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and their top aides to craft a new approach to the Korean credit crisis, which they had long underestimated, at least in public. The three-hour dinner was a turning point in a months-long U.S. journey from backroom player to more visible leader in a global effort to solve the financial crunch. For months, Rubin & Co. had played down the crisis and balked at committing U.S. taxpayer dollars to a bailout that would help South Korea and the big financial institutions around the world that held...
Last, remember that this race, which is really no race at all, is one of many on our life journeys. We are not in it to beat everyone else, but instead to improve upon ourselves. If we should stumble, perhaps it is because our laces were untied or we needed to move at a different pace. Whatever the case may be, let's accept the challenges and move on because before we know it, this part of the journey will have passed...
That conviction is what sustains the pilgrims as they toil up the barren, vertiginous slopes from the Great Rift Valley to the high, dusty plain where Axum lies. Many began their journey on the Julian New Year, back in September; even if one can afford to fly or drive, it is unseemly not to walk. The destination is not only holy to the church but sacred to the nation. From the son of Sheba 3,000 years ago descended an unbroken line of Ethiopian Emperors down to the people's revolution in 1974. Today Axum is the capital of Tigrai...