Word: amtrak
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...Goldman were murdered. Vannatter said police saw two more blood drops inside the front door of Simpson's estate. TIME Los Angeles correspondent Elaine Lafferty says the lengthy trial is taking its toll on the sequestered jurors, who "looked pretty bored today." She noted that a 52-year-old Amtrak manager was dismissed from the jury today because authorities suspected he was writing a book about the trial. The fifth juror to be removed was replaced by a 60-year-old retired woman who has been a juror in five other cases, including a murder trial...
...Over the next nine months, the Amtrak rail-passenger network will phase in route and service reductions that will cut nationwide train service 21%. On Feb. 1 the daily Palmetto, which ran between New York City and Tampa via Washington and Charleston, was discontinued. The daily Crescent, operating between New York City and New Orleans via Washington and Atlanta, has reduced the Atlanta-New Orleans leg to three days a week. The Empire Builder will continue its daily schedule between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis, but the connecting service to Seattle and Portland is now available only four times...
...TIME for his view of the events, he simply said, "I'd better get back to work." In the Senate the newly installed majority leader gave a speech more characteristic of Gingrich than the one the Speaker actually delivered, promising "to cut federal programs from A to Z, from Amtrak to zoological studies...
...quasi-independent entity; squeezing 60 housing programs into four; and streamlining many Department of Transportation programs into an $11 billion block grant controlled by states. Probably next on the block, White House aides whispered: cutting DOT's staff of 106,000 in half over two years; eliminating money-losing Amtrak's subsidy over five years, cutting in half the Department of Energy's annual budget to $10.6 billion; and scooping about $700 million from HUD's nearly $30 billion budget. Overall, Clinton says he can cut $76 billion from the federal budget over five years -- leaving $16 billion for deficit...
...Amtrak announced today that it will cut a fifth of its train service and lay off 5,500 workers in an effort to stem mounting operating losses. Amtrak cited a possible cut in its federal subsidy and intense competition with low airline and bus fares as reasons for cutbacks. Starting February 1, Amtrak will reduce the frequency of trains on several routes including its busy Northeast corridor service between Boston and Washington, D.C. Slated to be cut completely after April are the Chicago-Milwaukee, Chicago-Grand Rapids and San Jose-Sacramento-Roseville routes. Overall, 530 stations...