Word: letters
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Conville, chief steward of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), said Lamft is advertising the restructuring as "a cure-all for the whole thing" when he should be concentrating on management problems and readjusting carriers' routes...
...direct mailer can then aim a solicitation at a letter box with a precision bordering on the scientific. While some people find the attention flattering, others consider it insidious. "There's something kind of creepy about companies knowing more about you than your own family, and compiling and trading information about you behind your back," says Robert Ellis Smith, editor of the watchdog newsletter Privacy Journal. Direct marketers strongly deny that they are intruders. "Nobody wants dossiers compiled about them," says Michael Manzari, president of Kleid Co., a New York City concern that brokers and manages lists...
...front line of that debate are those whose sons and daughters are on the front line in the gulf. The Military Families Support Network, for example, grew out of an open letter to President Bush from Alex Molnar, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, whose son Christopher is a Marine corporal in Saudi Arabia. "If, as I expect, you eventually order American soldiers to attack Iraq," he wrote, "then it is God who will have to forgive you. I will not." After the New York Times published his letter, Molnar received thousands of calls from people...
...annual meeting in Washington last week the National Conference of Catholic Bishops also joined the Columbus fray, in a pastoral letter on the evangelization of the Americas. The text acknowledged that indigenous Americans' encounter with Europeans was "harsh and painful." Nonetheless, the bishops went on, "the effort to portray the history of the encounter as a totally negative experience in which only violence and exploitation of the native peoples were present is not an accurate interpretation of the past...
Dressed in a khaki four-star general's uniform, Manuel Noriega walked to the front of a Miami courtroom last week in his first public appearance in months. The former Panamanian dictator read an open letter accusing the U.S. government of trying to deny him a fair trial. "It is painfully obvious that the government does not wish me to be able to defend myself," he told Federal Judge William Hoeveler. "They have taken my money, deprived me of my lawyers, videotaped me with my lawyers, wiretapped my telephone calls with my lawyers and even given them to the press...