Word: walked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These companies don't always manage it, but you've got to give them points for effort. Webvan boasts that its 330,000-sq.-ft. warehouse is so meticulously organized that no packer has to walk more than 19 1/2 ft. in search of a product. Now, post-IPO, the firm is set to build 26 warehouses across the country at a cost of $1 billion...
...York City: "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country...
...rail molding ingeniously milled and painted to blend into the aging woodwork of a conference room used by the oceans and environment bureau. "This is really a sort of James Bond scenario," marvels a top official. "This is not something you go in and slap under the table and walk out the door. It's extremely professional in nature and sufficiently concealed so that you or I wouldn't find it in a hundred years...
...State Department's office of diplomatic security was covertly scouring the department with a Geiger-counter-size debugging device. An inch-by-inch search of the first through sixth floors yielded nothing. Then a few weeks ago, investigators found a tiny microphone-transmitter on the seventh floor, a short walk from "Mahogany Row," the ornate suite occupied by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top advisers...
...should have known. I'm telling you, it's inaccurate," he says. "This harassment by athletes on Eric and Dylan that has been printed time and time again--I never received a call indicating that these people were harassing them. At no time did Eric or Dylan walk into my office and say, 'Mr. DeAngelis, I'm concerned...