Word: snow
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...Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will keep your mail carrier from making the daily rounds, promises the U.S. Postal Service's unofficial motto - but the economy might. With 9.5 billion fewer letters and packages delivered in the 2008 fiscal year compared with 2007, the biggest mail volume decline in history has contributed to the agency's $2.8 billion loss for the year. That partly explains why shipping prices will rise 5% this month (a bigger hike than all shipping increases in 2008), with a stamp price jump to follow in May. The decline could also...
Today, one of the most visible indications that something is amiss are the "For Sale" signs that have lingered in front of some houses here for months, freezing into lawns now coated with ice-glazed snow. Even some of the most desirable houses that once sold within days by word of mouth aren't moving, like the Tudor-style beauty that has been empty for five months, the longest I can recall in my 17 years living here. The house sold swiftly last summer. But the new owners recently put it back on the market because the sale of their...
...been given a tour by one of the facility's residents rather than by an employee...There we stumbled onto a scene that has been permanently imprinted on my brain: five limp, totally beleaguered residents - all women - were seated around a television set whose screen was pure snow; one of the women was clutching a doll whose single eye was a clothes button...
Though it was nearing midnight and the temperature was sub-zero, Antoine hastily made his friend put on a jacket and run outside to the frozen Charles River down the street. Amid the snow and ice, the two friends stepped cautiously onto the frozen river and back to its bank. There they talked and laughed...
...Snow! Unable to travel to sunnier climes? Boston's stylish boutique Colonnade Hotel gives you a reason to embrace winter's deep freeze with the "Frosty Fridays" package. For a two-night weekend stay, you'll pay the standard rate of $295 for Saturday, but your Friday room rate will be whatever the temperature was that night at 5 p.m. The package also includes two tickets and skate rentals to Frog Pond on Boston Common, or a tour on the Old Town Trolley. Warm up with complimentary hot chocolate for two at the hotel's brasserie. Through March; includes parking...