Word: postalized
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...postal card last week from some %- folks I know out in Hollywood, California. Seems they went there to make a motion picture and wound up gettin' their grits fried by a Florida boy name of Burt Reynolds and that lil ole big ole gal from Tennessee Dolly Parton. Leastways that's how they tell it. I figger it another way: If you plan to go to Hollywood you better be ready to Go Hollywood. But you decide for yer own self...
...American economy in the late 1980s is expected to have even more severe problems of worker shortages in some key industries. A Labor Department study shows that while the U.S. will need far fewer shoe repairmen, gas station operators and postal clerks by 1990, it will be looking for increased numbers of computer programmers, computer systems analysts and home health aides...
...union-household members said that no one should be permitted to strike. Only 55% of the American people favor unions, down from 66% in 1967 and 76% in 1957. Perhaps the last major public employee strike that enjoyed any measure of public sympathy was the walkout by postal workers...
...Digest, offers subscribers everything from financial planning to word processing. Source subscribers can monitor the schedule of current legislative activities in the Congress, check the latest changes in airline schedules and send "electronic mail" to other subscribers by using Source computers as a kind of space-age postal system. Gerald Reinen, a Massachusetts business consultant, reports that not only does he use the Source for business applications at the office but his children use it at home when they want to look up movie reviews...
...your article of October 1, on page 6, about the "Postal Rate Hike," you claim that a change from 6 cents to 20 cents represents a 333 per cent increase. While it is true that 333% x 6 is 20, the same reasoning would mean that a change of 6 cents to, say, a modest 8 cents would represent a 133 per cent increase! Such reasoning is obviously fallacious, as would have been plainly apparent given the briefest thought...