Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call in their orders up until 10 p.m., and we get them there by 10:30 the next morning," says Owner Charles Vergos. "This was the answer to our prayers, because if we don't get the ribs out fast, they are not any good." Romantics in a rush to send flowers can dial Roseland Express, a California firm that for $35 will whisk a dozen fresh, long-stemmed roses to any point in the U.S. overnight on Airborne Freight...
Although Pochapin says that " September is the Coop's Christmas" because of the back-to-school book rush, the Christmas season comes in a close second and draws a lot of members who don't shop there on a regular basis...
Pochapin says that to handle the rush--especially on Saturdays and the 10 days before Christmas--the Coop this year hired 200 temporary sales clerks, 150 of whom work in the Square store. In addition, the Coop has hired extra security help to combat the always "embarrassing" problem of shoplifting which gets worse during the holiday rush, says General Manager James A. Argeros. Those additions push the staff to 60 percent above normal in the month before Christmas, he adds...
Relief agencies tried to rush food to the starving country by diverting grain shipments from other destinations. The World Food Program rerouted a freighter carrying 28,000 metric tons of grain to an Ethiopian port. Even so, the ship will not arrive until Dec. 12. Another vessel, carrying 10,000 metric tons of U.S. Government-donated grain to India, changed course and headed for the beleaguered country. In all, 80,000 metric tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will...
More acutely, the current rush to correct the honors glut wholly ignores a more fundamental problem, the skewed system of grading that makes 87 percent of all grades in courses here B-minus or better, and that creates standards that vary widely from department to department. Until the problems relating to grading are corrected at Harvard, any system for awarding honors will be stop-gap at best...