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Postal officials decided in 1982 that a larger, sturdier vehicle was required because of the increased volume of mail and the longer distances between delivery points. The vans have twice the capacity of the Postal Service Jeeps and are expected to last 24 years, vs. eight years for the Jeeps. The vans should save the Postal Service $5.9 billion over the life of the fleet...
...address," Sackler said. "I believe that their ability to address these problems is enhanced by the recognition that primitive man was not so primitive. Physiological evolution is a very slow process, and we must not confuse technology with intelligence. The average adult caveman probably had superior reflexes and was sturdier than the average adult...
...mood of Supergirl seems almost pastoral compared with that of The Terminator. This picture barrels with swank relentlessness through a giddily complicated premise and into an Armageddon face-off between another New Woman and a Man of Iron. The man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is really a machine: sturdier than a tall building, able to break supporting players in his bare hands, shooting middle-aged " ladies on sight, speaking 2 whole sentences only when absolutely necessary...
Pentagon and State Department officials beg the point when they suggest that sturdier barriers might have forced the , terrorists to resort to aerial bombardment. Several Administration officials insist that no embassy, even in Beirut, should be turned into a fortress. Says Weinberger: "The desire is to have an embassy open to the public." Two more serious questions may be why the embassy staff had been transferred on July 31 to the building before security measures were installed, and why the Americans harbored a kind of blind faith in the safety of the new location in Christian East Beirut...
...those days, too, barriers were sturdier at Lamont Library, which was officially off-limits to Radcliffe students. So were all Harvard dormitories after...