Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even Postmaster General Anthony Frank admits that, from the consumers' standpoint, the price hikes are "too much, too soon." Although the Postal Service has cut its work force by 20,000, to 758,000, it remains the nation's largest civilian employer, and Frank says he has no choice but to ask for the increases until he can get labor costs under control. The Postal Service is expected to lose $1.6 billion this year...
...years to decide to join the Union. So with the 200th anniversary of statehood at hand, it seemed reasonable to stage a series of debates on whether the time had come for the Green Mountain State to declare its independence. The Vermont Statehood Bicentennial Commission selected political scientist Frank Bryan of the University of Vermont to argue for seceding from the Union and State Supreme Court Justice John Dooley to argue for staying...
...starkest contrast is the hurriedly published autobiography of Boris Yeltsin, the charismatic populist who seems more of a cross between Mick Jagger and Huey Long than a veteran apparatchik. His book, as predictably frank as Gromyko's is dour, bounces from biographical anecdotes to a diary of % his successful 1989 election campaign for the new Soviet legislature. The former volleyball star, who despite touches of buffoonery has become a cult hero among Soviet rebels with a cause, struts his arrogance from the schoolyard to Red Square...
...guide, suggesting half-conscious connections between then and now, Europe and America, TV and print. Within a few minutes a visitor can see an 1864 American-flag campaign broadside, collections of Coke bottles through the years (the original was designed by Alexander Samuelson in 1915), a little bag that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a San Francisco glass-and-china shop in 1942, the sweetly all-American Ritz cracker box, the computer-animated opening credits to the 1978 Superman movie and six pages from USA Today...
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