While this is only a sliver of the information that flows through the Federal Express logistical juggernaut, it is more information than most electric utilities in the United States provide their customers.
The Consumers Union, which campaigns on behalf of individual customers, wants Congress to require food producers to use an electronic tracking system like the one Federal Express employs for parcels.
In Cast Away, Hanks plays the boss at a Federal Express office in Moscow who ends up stranded on a desert island.
Herman has spent the last quarter of a century designing trademark uniforms for the likes of McDonald's, Federal Express, TWA and United Airlines out of the Manhattan studio that bears his name.
The collector did not send the sample to the laboratory until Monday, thinking it would be more secure at home than at a Federal Express office during the weekend.
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As a result of all this, and the boom in e-commerce, the big parcel companies, such as Federal Express, UPS and DHL (not targets of the current investigation), have seen business boom.
While big ugly conglomerates gasped for air during the 1970s, start-ups such as Federal Express, Microsoft, Apple, Genentech, Charles Schwab Corp. and Oracle were launched on the basis of cheaper technology and radically new business models.
The same federal investigation that netted American Express also nailed BankAtlantic Bancorp of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Federal Express adapted to the way slow-mouthed customers were abbreviating their name, officially changing it to FedEx.
In freight, the Japanese have agreed to let Federal Express ferry cargo to Beijing and Shanghai via Japan.
Out of that decade we saw the launch of Southwest Airlines, Federal Express, Genentech, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, SAS Institute and other fantastic companies.
Braun detailed how the urine sample he provided on Oct. 1, the day the Brewers opened the playoffs, was not delivered to Federal Express until Oct. 3.
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Unfortunately under the applicable federal pension law (ERISA), participants generally have no express legal right to participate in the administrative and investment decisions related to the plan itself. (Of course, collective bargaining agreements may provide participants some role in such matters.) The structure of the plan, the investment menu offered, and any matching contributions are all pretty much left to the employer.
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The President spoke with Governor Perdue and Governor Bentley yesterday to express his condolences and make sure they knew that the federal government stands ready through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist in the recovery efforts if needed.
This Federal Express disciple, who became the CEO of E-Trade in March 1996, insists that the company has moved beyond the online brokerage business to a new battlefront: unified online finance.
But Federal Express, FDX, one of the individual transportation stocks we may well have selected, shocked the market this week by announcing an unexpected 31% earnings decline, and the stock plunged almost 10% in just three days.
During this rotten decade, America saw the creation of start-ups that are mighty even now: Federal Express, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, Apple, Genentech, Charles Schwab, Oracle.
They did express concern that budget cuts could eventually reduce shipments by the federal government, a big customer.
Federal law prohibits government funding of world fair exhibitions in the absence of express Congressional authorization, and in the downturn American companies were reluctant to dole out cash for the Shanghai event.
After six years of teaching business processes at the University of Memphis, he jumped into the private sector, landing at a two-year-old transportation startup called Federal Express.
Justice Stephen Breyer said that in today's world, a registered letter is worse than ordinary mail, noting that "we don't all have butlers at the door" and asking why the U.S. Post Office can't be more flexible, like Federal Express.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) Chairman Sanford Weill is probably echoing the punch line on those old TV commercials: "I should have used Federal Express (nyse: FDX - news - people )!"
Who knew that the confidence-sapping 1970s would manage to produce Apple Computer, Microsoft, Oracle and Federal Express?
Two years ago the company's earnings were depressed by maintenance problems with old planes it had leased from Federal Express.
None of this, of course, has impressed firms such as America's Federal Express or Acer, Taiwan's biggest computer maker, who are among the multinationals that have invested heavily in Subic Bay and now face disruption from the dispute.
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