Word: likely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stadium blooms these days with banners proclaiming OKOYE COUNTRY. Thanks in large part to Okoye's heroics, the 7-6-1 Chiefs have a shot at the play-offs that begin Dec. 31. "That would be nice," says Okoye, who gives startling meaning to the term humble giant. "I like to see happiness in the locker room...
...reorganized in 1970 as a semiprivate, quasi-military company called the U.S. 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...
...mercy. A postal clerk has about a second to read an address and punch in the first three digits of the ZIP code, which is then translated into a bar-code symbol for sorting mail by carrier route. With no way to slow down the machine, the clerk is like Lucille Ball in her comic routine at a candy factory. One moment, Lucy is standing at the conveyor belt blithely wrapping individual candies; the next she is stuffing unwrapped chocolates under her hat, down her dress and into her bulging mouth. Fudge caramels spill onto the floor. Lucy is fired...
Some Freaks, like the author's previous collection of commentary, Writing in Restaurants, is a break from the demands of a difficult craft. It is also a chance for the playwright to mouth off and strike a number of disparate poses: the poker-playing resident of Vermont, the city boy who likes London tea shops, the gunner who belongs to both the N.R.A. and the A.C.L.U. and the provocateur who holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with...
...Saatchis went on a billion-dollar spree that sparked panic on then complacent Madison Avenue and helped fuel a merger frenzy as other agencies joined forces to stay in the game. Meanwhile the brothers bought and bought. Among the dozens of U.S. firms they scooped up were top names like Compton Communications (purchased in 1982 for $55 million), Dancer Fitzgerald Sample (1986, $75 million) and Backer & Spielvogel (1986, $100 million...