Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your-face presence of its address book (the "buddy list") on computer desktops. The software offers real-time chat with friends, family or co-workers who are online, as most now seem to be. Instant messaging, or IM, in fact, handles more missives each day than the U.S. Postal Service. Besides relying on it to evaluate their popularity levels, teenagers use IM to swap homework tips and gossip; Internet start-ups employ it in lieu of a long-distance budget; home users love it for all those times you just don't want to pick up the phone...
...stocks "speculative" and says his planned IPO "is not the result of what any other company is doing." Still, Zona Research estimates 55% of the goods bought online during the holidays were delivered by UPS. FedEx got a mere 10%. UPS management must have imagined the possibilities. (The U.S. Postal Service, by the way, delivered 32% of e-packages, a strong showing that suggests it might do well divorced from Uncle...
...lead on his closest competitor, a big cushion in this 20-stage race. And if his lead holds, Armstrong's achievement will be all the more remarkable. "The Tour de France is like running a marathon every day for 20 days," says Mark Gorski, manager of the U.S. Postal Service team, for which Armstrong rides. "Very few sporting events are that demanding...
...international cycling?s biggest race: the Tour de France. "What a compliment to his courage and to his doctors!" says TIME science contributor Fred Golden. "This is one of the most strenuous activities around." Armstrong, who had a hard time convincing any sponsors except the fledgling U.S. Postal Service team that he had it in him, finished the race with a colossal 7-minute-and-37-second lead over his closest rival...
...more users every day and, in many respects, it is already changing society, just as other media have changed society. As the Internet continues to grow--when every school is wired to the Web, as so many politicians promise, and when everyone has an e-mail address from the postal service--how will society change, and will it be for the better...