Word: runyon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mamet's fictive world was distinctive from the get-go. His plays, beginning with the 1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago, wrapped Pinteresque menace in comically precise diction, like a gamier Damon Runyon. It was Jewish guys talking like Italian guys about life, death and, always, a poignant memory of the perfect woman, long ago or never. ("Bobby," says the dying cop in Homicide, "you remember that girl that time?") But at 50, Mamet has other concerns. The overtly serious work tends to be about Jewishness (in his play The Old Neighborhood and novel The Old Religion); the nastily comic, about...
...fighting back, U.S. Postmaster General Marvin Runyon has gone to war with everyone from FedEx to members of Congress to some of the postal service's nearly 800,000 employees. Runyon has to improve technology--he envisions robots sorting the mail in the service's 360 mail-processing plants--cut costs more, expand service and somehow make peace with the country's largest work force. It will not be easy. Rivals say Runyon can use revenues from first-class service, in which he has a monopoly, to underprice competitors in such areas as parcel delivery. Sympathetic lawmakers have responded...
...Runyon, 73, who cut nearly 50,000 jobs after taking charge in 1993, the stakes in the battle to deliver mail in one form or another could hardly be higher. At issue, he says, is the survival of the Postal Service and its commitment to "universal service" for everyone from AT&T executives to Alaskan homesteaders. "We deliver to every house in America" six days a week, says the white-thatched veteran executive of Ford, Nissan USA and the Tennessee Valley Authority. "No competitor can touch that." None want to, in fact, because of the high costs of delivering...
...goal of the USPS is simply to stay in business. And just the idea that his competitors are complaining must mean Runyon has made some progress toward achieving...
...jawed visage, so familiar to those of us at TIME, will adorn No. 57 of the Postal Service's ongoing Great Americans series, honoring men and women who have helped shape the nation's history. "Henry Luce set the standard by which publications are judged," says Postmaster General Marvin Runyon. "His passionate belief in the importance and power of the written word and his unmatched devotion to excellence created a legacy that endures today...