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...volume. We deliver in any morning what they deliver in a year. They're a different business. The Postal Service is not a business. It's a businesslike public service. I could cut out $5 billion in one day. But our charter is to provide universal, uniform service to the American people, which means everybody gets the same service at the same rate. Compared to almost any other country, we are certainly the cheapest postal service and probably the best and getting better. People don't seem to understand. Would companies compete for Manhattan? Yes. Would they compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor 29-cent Stamps: ANTHONY FRANK | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...second session with Saddam proved just as long as the first. Saddam invited practically the entire Iraqi leadership to the first part of the meeting. All were dressed in military uniform. Saddam pointed out that there were "hawks" and "doves" among his advisers. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that Saddam had said this on purpose, to show that there was room for maneuver. But even so, I had my doubts that Saddam's words about a diversity of opinion in the Iraqi leadership reflected the true picture. Everything was decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inside Story of Moscow's Quest For a Deal | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...Italian citizen, came onto the floor to play ball in this land of the free. Each time Lokar touched the ball in the Feb. 2 game against St. John's University, the crowd booed and jeered the sophomore, the only player not wearing an American flag on his uniform. That night turned out to be the last time the flagless Lokar would wear his school's jersey. Last Wednesday he quit the team and dropped out of school. "I have received many threats, directed both toward me and my wife Lara, so that our life has become very difficult here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Grand Old (Politically Correct) Flag | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...additions, subtractions or alterations to official uniforms usually invite disciplinary action, except, apparently, in wartime. Late last month, the New York City police department overruled itself and decided that flag patches larger than a lapel pin but no bigger than 1.5 in. by 2 in. would not violate its strict standards. A Worcester, Mass., court officer fought for and won the right to wear a yellow ribbon below the breast badge on his uniform, unless a particular judge decides it might disrupt his courtroom. When a gate attendant at Miami's Opa-Locka Airport was told to remove her yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Grand Old (Politically Correct) Flag | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Satellite photographs of the building showed at least two additions: a newly hardened roof and communications equipment that was protected against the electromagnetic effects of nuclear blasts. The satellites also snapped pictures of military vehicles parked outside and men in uniform entering and exiting the building. A wire-mesh fence surrounded the bunker; its roof had been painted with camouflage and fake bomb holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Air War: How Targets Are Chosen | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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