Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Postal Service. With 825,000 employees, it has more troops than the U.S. Army. But pressure is growing from the public as the price of stamps goes up while service goes down, and hotshot new businesses like Federal Express demonstrate that a letter can absolutely, positively get there overnight. The Postal Service has had to automate to move more than 160 billion pieces of mail a year with ever greater efficiency. New machines have reduced handling costs from $15 per thousand letters to $3 per thousand. Despite automation, human hands still touch most letters 14 times. Automation means they just...
...percent randomization, the staff wraps itself recklessly in the banner of "diversity," carelessly applying a heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be manufactured virtually overnight, externally. For the sake of the symbolism of total randomization, it also sweeps aside serious problems with that plan...
Silber became involved in another controversy two years ago when he proposed a plan to restrict overnight guests in BU dormitories...
...illustrator Barbara McClintock places her 19th century tale onstage, where everything is expressed through the dramatic pose and the pregnant paws. Minette is pursued by the rakish Count Bisquet and the worthy Lionel. In the end she spurns them both to write her scandalous memoir, which becomes an overnight success. If there is any justice, so will this comic biography...
Wendehals literally means turn neck, the name of a rare bird that can twist its head 180 degrees; the word has been adopted by East Germans to refer to the thousands of Communist Party officials, from Egon Krenz, the current party leader, down to district secretaries, who overnight began to sound as if they had joined the pro-democracy movement. A favorite target is Gunter Mittag, the recently sacked Politburo member in charge of the economy. Described by the newly outspoken East German press as arrogant and autocratic, Mittag is being held responsible for wrecking the economy and cooking...