Word: postal
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...tall, a behemoth in a region known for its diminutive people. Yi's parents, however, were reluctant to let the Soviet-style sports school lay claim to their only son. "We had endured hardships ourselves," says Yi's mother, Mai Meiling, who like her husband works as a postal clerk. "We couldn't get good jobs when we retired because we didn't have a good education. We wanted more for our son." Dai Yixin, the school's veteran coach, finally convinced the parents their son wouldn't get lost because he had all the raw ingredients of a star...
...process, it has turned down at least one cash offer for the property that was substantially higher than its own valuation. The Finance Ministry paid a total of €16 million for rights to a strip of Wertheim land near Leipziger Platz that housed the postal service before the war. Oddly, the real estate was already officially registered as belonging to the government - so the Finance Ministry wrote a check for rights to property it already owned. The Ministry subsequently sold some of the property to a Berlin utility for twice the price per square meter that it had paid...
...enough is enough. A parliamentary report published last week slammed state-owned enterprises, saying the French model "no longer fulfills new international and European demands." Among firms singled out: France Télécom, which the government has just bailed out with a €9 billion injection; the postal service, which is 25% overstaffed compared with European rivals; and the national utility...
CATHARINE RAY: A WINTRY LOVE They first meet around Christmastime 1754 while he is inspecting New England's postal network. He is 48 and at the peak of his scientific glory; she is 23, vivacious, opinionated and uninhibited. Basking in his attentions on a visit to Boston from her home on Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, Catharine Ray chatters away. She makes him sugar plums, which he pronounces better than any he has ever tasted. A few days later, they set off for Rhode Island. It is a wintry journey marked by "a wrong road and a soaking...
...took a little while for Philadelphia to accept a man who walks around in buckle shoes, white stockings, a frilly white shirt and a red vest, with a gold pocket watch and a postal bag adorned with a perfectly forged Franklin signature--just one of eight complete outfits--but it did. "My first day here, a bag lady looked at me and said, 'Weirdo,'" Archbold says over breakfast at the Cosi sandwich shop after talking to one of the many homeless people who know him. "You have hit a new level of weirdo when a bag lady is calling...