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...time in Boston as a form of exile. It’s like “diet city”— one-tenth the population and half the dining options. But when the craving for the deep-fried, chocolate-covered, cherry-on-top real thing hits, Amtrak gets me there in four hours...
...first job offer came from a wonderful firm in Washington, D.C.—200 miles south of the mark. Firmly convinced that Amtrak has consumed enough of my student budget in the past several years, I elected to keep looking...
...President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, shod in Adidas, alighted from his silver sedan to jog in Central Park. He also stopped at Cohen's Fashion Optical to buy, using a credit card, $3,000 worth of eyeglasses for himself and his family. Zarian President Mobutu Sese Seko rented two Amtrak club cars loaded with caviar and champagne to take his entourage of 50 people to Washington and back (cost: $9,800). Outside the U.N., West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had to be snatched from the path of an onrushing New York City police car bringing up the rear of President...
...this framework to succeed will take some serious whittling in the only area still left open: the much reduced domestic spending programs. House Speaker Tip O'Neill says that items to be considered include the Small Business Administration, Amtrak and revenue sharing. Further cuts will not be easy, nor are they likely to come close to replacing the $28.6 billion over three years that would be saved by freezes on Social Security, other entitlements and Government pensions. At best, any compromise that finally emerges will be only the smallest of down payments toward cutting the deficit...
President Bush may want to slash operating subsidies for Amtrak. But with America's passenger rail service running through 46 states, plenty of members of Congress will work to stop him dead in his tracks...