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Schlager said the developer is planning a "safer, more efficient postal facility" with shelters for bus stops, brick sidewalks, trees and other features that will blend with and improve the immediate area. The post office will perform its own interior renovations...

Author: By Adam M. Lalley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Square Post Office To Close Next Year for Renovations | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

STAMP OUT THAT PHRASE The Dictionary of American Slang defines "to go postal" as "to succumb to tension and fatigue; lose it, stress out." Sound harmless? Not to the U.S. Postal Service, which is doing its best to send the phrase packing. A history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deliverance | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...movie Clueless, Cher Horowitz, played by Alicia Silverstone, frets, "I had an overwhelming sense of ickiness...like Josh thinking I was mean was making me postal." Enters common usage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deliverance | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...commission, in a 249-page report it calls "groundbreaking," concludes, "'Going postal' is a myth: postal workers are no more likely to physically assault, sexually harass or verbally abuse their coworkers than employees in the national work force..." and says retail workers are more in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deliverance | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...there, no question," rebuts Steele, "but there isn't a shred of evidence that he's advocated breaking the law." Yet Dees points to alumni like Buford Furrow, who is awaiting trial on charges of shooting up a Jewish day-care center in Los Angeles and killing a Filipino postal worker last summer. Furrow, who pleaded not guilty, worked security for Butler in the 1990s. Another ex-security chief, Eldon Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nazis Under Fire | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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