Word: postally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Government already has the power to crack down on the diet industry through the federal truth-in-advertising and mail-fraud laws. But these weapons have generally been used just against products that are truly outrageous. The Postal Service, for example, took action against diet sunglasses, which supposedly altered food color and made meals appear less appetizing, and a satin headband designed to emit electromagnetic waves that, according to the manufacturer's claims, help customers refuse to eat calorie- laden foods...
Moakley received large contributions from defense contractors such as Raytheon Co. and General Dynamics; from communications PACs including New England Telephone and the National Cable Television Association; from transportation companies including Greyhound Corp.; and from labor PACs including the Teamsters, postal workers and airline pilots unions...
Even Postmaster General Anthony Frank admits that, from the consumers' standpoint, the price hikes are "too much, too soon." Although the Postal Service has cut its work force by 20,000, to 758,000, it remains the nation's largest civilian employer, and Frank says he has no choice but to ask for the increases until he can get labor costs under control. The Postal Service is expected to lose $1.6 billion this year...
...Weaveworld) and filmmaker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) who is branching into fantasy. While The Great and Secret Show is populated by a DeMille-size cast of pubescent schoolgirls, suburban worthies, seedy entertainers and even a winsome apeman, its central antagonists are a mad genius straight from science fiction and a deranged postal clerk who dreams of magical powers...
...scientist tries to isolate the force inside each cell that triggers evolution; the postal clerk peruses dead letters by the carload in search of a secret code among the supernatural elect. They clash as men and then, having transcended mere morality through their discoveries, as ever more abstruse ! forms of energy. Like most fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive...