Word: shipments
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DonorsChoose may be a virtual charity, but its effect on children is very real. Every shipment includes a disposable camera and guidelines for writing class thank-you notes. A fifth-grader in the Bronx reduced a regular donor to tears with this note: "No one has ever done anything that nice for me before ... I want to do something nice for you. Just let me know what you need, and I'll take care of it." Vani Khajuria, a North Carolina fourth-grader, wrote her patron, "My children's children's children will treasure this book." Eloquent proof that...
...network told investigators that Iranian contacts once dropped off in Khan's apartment two suitcases containing $3 million in cash as a payment. From 1999 on, Khan traveled to Dubai 41 times, the Pakistani government says. Khan also kept a penthouse on posh al-Maktoum Road. When arranging a shipment, he would set up in Dubai dozens of shell companies consisting of nothing more than "a fax machine and an empty office," says a former colleague. As soon as the deal was done, he shut the companies down...
...magistrate in Parma. Usually, companies take on debt to grow. But in Parmalat's case, "they had to grow to hide the debt." The core of the fraud was a system of double billing to Italian supermarkets and other retail customers. Simply put, by billing twice for the same shipment of merchandise, Parmalat could create the impression that its accounts receivable were much larger than they really were. One of the Parmalat executives who operated the scheme, Claudio Pessina, told Milan magistrates that as many as 300 people at Parmalat knew of it. But if anybody thought there was something...
...can’t just tell our suppliers that we no longer want a scheduled shipment of Oreo cake because students want pie,” Martin said...
...administrative e-mails delight students like package notification e-mails. Sometimes the notice means a surprise gift, sometimes it’s a shipment of textbooks and sometimes the package simply contains all the belongings that wouldn’t fit on the plane. But whatever the case, an inbox with a package notification e-mail almost always brings a smile to a student’s face. In the past few weeks, however, all too many of these important e-mails went unsent, and as a result students’ packages idled away in increasingly infamous package depots. While...