Word: boston
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...perhaps even to find clues to the future. The current upheavals in Eastern Europe have inspired comparisons to another revolutionary year in European history. In recent weeks former presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Columbia University historian Fritz Stern, and editorial writers in the New York Times and Boston Globe have drawn parallels between...
Signs are they haven't done so. Despite a $585 million high-tech makeover for the Postal Service over the past two years, the odds have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour...
...attacks by workers on supervisors and 183 by bosses on workers. Last August, John Taylor, a letter carrier in Escondido, Calif., went on a rampage with a rifle, killing two colleagues, his wife and himself. Four other California postal employees committed suicide this year. In May, an irate Boston mail handler in a stolen airplane strafed the city streets with an AK-47. During a 13-hour siege in New Orleans last December, a mail handler shot his supervisor in the face, killing him, and wounded three other people. In Massachusetts in June 1988, a clerk killed a co-worker...
...side, the returners are led by Co-Captains Tim Harte and junior John Mee, who already qualified for the 400-meter dash for the IC4A meet in March during the squad's opening victory over Boston College...
Score points is exactly what Rios did against Boston College, jumping to a personal high, 6 ft., 8 in., and finishing second...