...Tuesday cut its outlook for global growth and industrial production while slashing the forecast for company earnings. CEO Fred Smith suggested trade has slowed to levels seen during the past two significant economic downturns.Smith said some experts...

...shift by customers to slower, less expensive means of delivery as the global economy struggles to grow.Founder and CEO Fred Smith said most of the cost cuts will come in the company's Express and Services units, which have been hurt the most by...

...Jordan, Augusta; Sheila Ann (Cecil) Key, Emily (George) Daniels, Velma Z. Adderly, Hephzibah, Lee Eunice (Fred) Smith, Athens, GA, Gwendolyn (Thaddeus) Pryor, Virginia Beach, VA; one son, Rev. Vernon (Glenda) Zinnerman, Sr...

...Jordan, Augusta; Sheila Ann (Cecil) Key, Emily (George) Daniels, Velma Z. Adderly, Hephzibah, Lee Eunice (Fred) Smith, Athens, GA, Gwendolyn (Thaddeus) Pryor, Virginia Beach, VA; one son, Rev. Vernon (Glenda) Zinnerman, Sr...

...Brown; sisters, Claudia (Joel) Jordan, Augusta; Sheila Ann (Cecil) Key, Emily (George) Daniels, Lee Eunice (Fred) Smith, Athens, GA, Gwendolyn (Thaddeus) Pryor, Virginia Beach, VA; one brother, Rev. Vernon (Glenda) Zinnerman...

...lives than their nonveteran contemporaries. When is The Chronicle going to run profiles of such successful veterans as Fred Smith (founder of FedEx), Craig Vetner (co-discoverer of the human genome map), Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune), etc...

...The editorial board, in particular, should be particularly cautious about their unqualified discussions of race... Fred Smith, Hephzibah, Ga. (Editor's note: Executive Editor Dennis Sodomka has nothing to do with The Chronicle's editorial...

...fairly well in a contemporary crowd. "Neanderthals were highly resourceful, highly intelligent creatures," says Fred Smith, a Neanderthal specialist at Northern Illinois University. "They were not big, dumb brutes by any stretch of the...

...order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible." (A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith proposing a reliable overnight delivery service. Mr. Smith went on to found a company he called Federal Express...

...and successful lives after their service. Vietnam veterans in this category include, to give just a few examples, Fred Smith (Yale MBA and founder and president of FedEx), Dennis Franz (actor), Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune host) and Craig...