Word: footedly
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...problem is that the U.S. hasn't come to grips with the fact that in a fast-changing world, mail delivery is better run as a competitive business than as a government monopoly. While many countries have privatized their postal systems, the USPS has a foot stuck in each world. It is a semiprivate corporation with a lumbering government bureaucracy. It is run by a board of governors made up not of crack chief executives but of a folksy blend of local politicians, small-town business leaders and federal bureaucrats. The board has no postal experience, and Postmaster General William...
...foot-long horizontal cut was found across Andrews' abdomen, says Dr. Rogelio Marcial, the coroner. It was a postmortem assault. She had been killed with a gunshot wound to the back that pierced her heart. The baby was removed within the next seven to 10 minutes. "This was a well-planned affair," said Marcial. The information for making the cut is widely available. According to Marcial: "all you have to do is look at books or the Internet, something like Babyzone. It's just like making bombs." Police believe Michelle Bica may have started keeping track of Andrews when they...
...uncanny instrument. Sitting on a ragged couch in my railroad flat, I could hear her through all the arguments on the street, the car alarms, the sirens. She floated above the sound of New York while also being a part of it - a Bronx-born Latina stomping her foot on the sidewalk and insisting on being heard...
...show's directors watch to see how students deal with the distractions of the set, including nine-foot lights, a rowdy audience and a cast of celebrities...
...U.S.S. Cole was rammed in the port of Aden by an explosive-packed inflatable craft that blew a 30-foot hole in its port side, killing at least seven sailors and wounding about 30. Ten were reported to be missing and presumed dead. The Cole had been heading for the Gulf, where it was to help police sanctions against Iraq. The attack was followed Friday by an explosion at the British Embassy in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital. The suspect list in both incidents would have to include the Osama Bin Laden network, in whose stomping ground it occurred...