Word: touche
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...survival of the Postal Service and its commitment to "universal service" for everyone from AT&T executives to Alaskan homesteaders. "We deliver to every house in America" six days a week, says the white-thatched veteran executive of Ford, Nissan USA and the Tennessee Valley Authority. "No competitor can touch that." None want to, in fact, because of the high costs of delivering to all those remote mailboxes. Yet Runyon has to keep the total volume of postal business growing 2.3% a year to maintain the economies of scale that keep the service competitive...
...wander into breakfast, and as you walk, you notice a remarkable spring in your step. You are so light, your body feels so airy that you almost feel as though your legs are reaching to touch the ground instead of pushing to hold you up. You don't even feel tired. As a matter of fact, you feel more energetic than you felt the day before! Not only that, but you feel more alert than ever; when you look around at the buildings outside, everything appears incredibly sharp and focused, and the voices of the people around you sound remarkably...
...Nesson class a hand-written note from Thompson dated April 21, 1997, the same day he found out about the tenure denial, which read in part, "I have just learned that you were denied tenure...I was not able to support your candidacy...I hope to keep in touch...
Driving is a curious combination of public and private acts. A car isolates a driver from the world even as it carries him through it. The sensation of personal power is intoxicating. Sealed in your little pod, you control the climate with the touch of a button, from Arctic tundra to equatorial tropic. The cabin is virtually soundproof. Your "pilot's chair" has more positions than a Barcalounger. You can't listen to that old Sammy Davis Jr. tape at home because your kids will think you're a dweeb, but in the car, the audience roars as you belt...
...Ripley's Believe It or Not! Come see the former junior high school English teacher, wit, storyteller and singer to children transformed before your very eyes into a sphinx. Yet she is still a great beauty, ladies and gentlemen. The silver hair, the smooth pink skin. Go ahead and touch her. She won't bite. (Then again, she might...