In 1995 McDonald's tinkered with a take-home meal restaurant called Hearth Express in Darien, Ill.
In 1918, 101 people were killed as an inbound local train collided with an outbound express in Nashville, Tennessee.
With these critical differences in mind, we explore the opportunities that lie ahead for American Express in an evolving macroeconomic environment.
Bowen was the toast of the ad business 15 years ago after creating the celebrity-chocked "Portraits" campaign for American Express in the 1980s.
This leaves American Express in the enviable position of being able to more aggressively issue cards than its competitors given its low charge off rates.
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"Given my own plans for the coming years, we both agreed that was not likely to happen at American Express in the short term, " Chenault said in a recent statement.
As of the fourth quarter of 2012, Berkshire holds 151, 610, 700 shares of American Express in total, or 13.72% of the company, making it the largest institutional equity owner of the company.
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So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it.
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Staples tacked on some debt to acquire Corporate Express in 2008, but the exposure to the corporate delivery market was worth the leverage, and management has been aggressive about paying down outstanding borrowings.
Here is Mark Twain on the Pony Express in 1861 writing in a style that the New Yorker made its own 100 years later, all the way down to using words for numbers.
Ameriprise, which was spun out of American Express in 2005 is a wealth management and mutual fund operator, but it has a significant home and life insurance business as well as an annuities business.
"We are all in mourning and I wish to express in the name of FC Barcelona our heartfelt condolences to Espanyol on the painful loss of their captain Dani Jarque, and also to his family".
"Given the explosion in content and the frustration many viewers express in being able to find something to watch, a superior search-and-discovery experience offers one of the biggest opportunities for delivering value to customers, " he said.
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The Jacobite is a daily steam-hauled service that has recently achieved a new kind of stardom as the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films, in which it steams majestically, just as now, across the Glenfinnan Viaduct.
So those big dance numbers, that kind of physical intimacy between Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, represented that kind of sexual ardor that movies just couldn't express in the ways that are much more open to us in the last 30 or 40 years.
Because it's a Smartphone, it'll come equipped with the Standard version of Windows Mobile 6, and we're thinking it'll be likely packing one of the most luxurious typing experiences of any WM6 Standard device on the market (which, of course, we can use to express in email and SMS our frustration to HTC about the lack of a 3G radio).
David Ross, 39, was found in the Village Express Hotel in The Jamb on 17 December.
For years he coveted a shotgun in Harrah's Pony Express Museum in Reno that had belonged to Black Bart, the 19th-century robber famous for leaving poems at the scene of stickups.
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals posited the theory that animals express emotion in a similar way to humans.
In Cast Away, Hanks plays the boss at a Federal Express office in Moscow who ends up stranded on a desert island.
The wild, chest beating machismo of many of the 49ers and Ravens players is certainly not evident in the corporate world, but make no mistake, deep down in every great business person is similar passion- though it will express itself in more sedate ways.
Last week's contemporary art auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's had the feel of growth stock mania in the early seventies when Xerox, Polaroid, even Eastman Kodak and American Express sold in the stratosphere at 40 to 60 times earnings.
In the meantime, Weather Channel has used a simpler measure, called "feels like, " to express temperature in a temperature-like number, taking into account wind chill at low temperatures and humidity at high temperatures.
Express it in terms of emotion or in terms of what it enables customers to do.
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Britain's InterContinental Hotels, meanwhile, has negotiated licences for two Holiday Inn Express sites in provincial capitals.
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Spencer had been raising money for small companies at Capital Express, in Lyndhurst, N.
They express confidence in the ability of the PE owner-operator model to generate superior returns.
But ultimately we provide a platform where young people can express themselves in a non-judgmental environment.
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