Word: send
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hospital care in Bedford, Ind., is an odd case of capitalism in action--maybe even hyperaction. Should you get into a car wreck on Highway 50 as it passes through town, two local hospitals can send ambulances to compete for your business. If you are sufficiently alert, you can choose between Dunn Memorial Hospital and Bedford Regional Medical Center. To avoid unseemly tugs of war, the city requires that the hospitals alternate pickups of victims not well enough to state a preference. And the police are on hand to sort things out. "They'll back off when...
...USPS has long demanded, the service's website published a shopping list showing how prices for food items such as ice cream, salad, and yes, pork ribs, have outstripped recent stamp price increases. Come on, you can't buy a pork roast on the Web. But you can send a letter, and for a lot less than 33 cents...
...USPS has long demanded, the service's website published a shopping list showing how prices for food items such as ice cream, salad, and yes, pork ribs, have outstripped recent stamp price increases. Come on, you can't buy a pork roast on the Web. But you can send a letter, and for a lot less than 33 cents...
...Locating and capturing Kansi became a high-priority project for FBI and CIA personnel in Pakistan, a rare joint venture by the rival agencies. Several times, when agents thought they were close to nabbing Kansi, President Clinton became directly involved, contacting leaders in southwestern Asia to obtain clearance to send in U.S. agents--only to have them fail to get their...
...behind. Although the planned deployment would roughly match current British troop levels, today's announcement by the incoming government of Tung Chee-hwa was met with derision by colonial Governor Chris Patten. He warned that the sight of armored cars in the streets on July 1 would send "a very bad signal to Hong Kong and the rest of the world." To reach their barracks on Hong Kong Island, the 21 armored cars arriving with the deployment will have to pass through some of Hong Kong's most crowded urban districts. The new troops will join a contingent...