Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeah," admits Mark, who works in international customer service for United Parcel Service. He laughs and adds, "She gets jealous of some of the girls in the office," then explains how Laura once visited him at his previous job and became uncomfortable after she overheard him repeatedly compliment a female co-worker on her job performance. Laura smiles nervously, fidgets with a pen and says nothing...
...Washington, and they have decided to take matters, from education to sanitation, into their own hands. Self-reliance is a good concept; however, it does little to build a nation. Is there an America, a nation, a community with shared visions and aspirations? Or is America simply a parcel of land holding some 260 million voices singing 260 million different tunes...
...lockout was the immediate result of a dispute between the Park Service and the King family over a new visitor center being built on the Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...
...session with Kasich had been arranged hastily, and was the only meeting that day in which Gingrich actually discussed the substance of legislation. - The rest of his day, Gingrich wrestled with logistics. There were meetings to parcel out office space, much of which the new Speaker had never been allowed to see until after the election. There were meetings to decide whom to hire, as well as which of Congress's more than 10,000 jobs to abolish. Among the first to go in the campaign to show that Gingrich's team is serious about rooting out waste: the scores...
...quarter for each post card or extra ounce of regular mail, as the post office wanted, post cards will be 20 cents -- up a penny -- and extra ounces will stay at 23 cents. The downside: second- and third-class mail -- including magazines and newspapers -- go up 14 percent, Parcel Post jumps 18 percent and the special library rate increases a painful 70 percent. BTW: The flat first-class stamp rate debuted in 1885 at 2 cents an ounce, cleared 10 cents in 1974 and rose from 25 cents to the current 29 cents...