Word: parcelled
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...illegal pickets or strikes, he would call Carey to advise him, and that "Carey would honor the strike without even investigating the nature, purpose or legitimacy of the strike." According to investigators, this suggests that Carey's own Teamster Local 804, which he still controls, and which represents United Parcel Service workers in the New York City area, declined to deliver packages to employers who were under attack by the Lucchese family -- presumably for failing to make payoffs...
...have to cast him as a star witness to try to convict Lorena. Ironically, pros ecutor Paul Ebert's failure to convict John will make this easier, since it weakens her claim that her act was justified. Dur ing his closing argument last week, Ebert signaled that he could parcel out his disdain with an even hand: "You might say perhaps that these two people deserve each other...
...Clinton bill is so complex that congressional leaders will need a week to 10 days merely to parcel out its various parts among the many committees waiting to begin hearings. The earliest anybody expects an actual bill to pass is next August, and it could be next fall. The outlook is still for something to pass, but it will be a long time before there is any solid clue as to what...
...newly embodied Lasher. The broad historical and global scope which Rice so adeptly pulled off in the Vampire Chronicles and even managed well enough in The Witching Hour seems overly ambitious here. The globetrotting which takes place in the world of the vampire Lestat here seems part and parcel of Rice's desperate attempt to re-create the aura of mystery and erotic power commanded by her vampires. But witches are a whole different ballgame and Rice takes much too long to resolve the problem at the heart of the novel: Lasher is searching for a new embodiment or reincarnation...
...Newark, New Jersey, and up the west side of the Hudson River, three locomotives lug 63 flatbed freight cars -- almost a mile of Conrail train for United Parcel and the U.S. Postal Service, due in California in 72 hours. Engineer Jim Metzger, 42, flicks his eyes like beacons from digital screens inside his cab to the roadbed and back -- right hand on the throttle controlling 11,400 horses, left hand on the three-tone whistle, two longs, a short and a long at every crossing. Past suburban backyards and friendly waves, through the West Point tunnel, rolling from 35 m.p.h...