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...result, the Bush budget documents are as cryptic as an Etruscan * inscription. The heart of the strategy is a $136 billion pool of popular programs like Amtrak, environmental protection and nutritional assistance that Congress can deal with as it wishes. Off limits for Bush is the defense budget, frozen at $291 billion after allowing for inflation, and the near sacrosanct $247 billion for Social Security. Unfortunately, those huge budgetary no-trespassing signs mean that only meat-cleaver slashes in the jumble of discretionary programs could possibly make the Bush proposal meet the Gramm-Rudman targets. But the President's team...
Burnley said that in his own field of transportation, "far and away, the worst problem we have in the railroad industry is narcotics." He cited the Amtrak train disaster outside Washington, D.C., in which the operator later tested positive for drugs. Illegal drug use was a problem in 59 recent accidents, alcohol in six, he continued...
...will use the station as well as croissant- eating lawyers. "This isn't a suburban mall," says Benjamin Thompson, the renovation and revitalization architect, based in Cambridge, Mass., who designed the new retail spaces. "This is Washington, D.C. We wanted to maintain Union Station as a transportation center." Until Amtrak service is fully restored, within a year, rail passengers will continue to use a dreary annex built in 1975, when Park Service officials turned the main station into a tourist-information bureau. The National Visitor Center, both conceptually and physically a bust, was closed in 1981. Soon the place...
...should have been no surprise. Transportation Secretary James Burnley pointed out that since the drug-related Amtrak crash in Chase, Md., that killed 16 passengers in January 1987, there have been 37 railroad accidents in which one or more employees tested positive for illegal substances. "We don't need another rail disaster involving drugs to tell us that the railroad industry is not exempt from the drug epidemic," said Burnley, who has proposed random testing for workers in safety-related jobs...
...same way, having been embraced by all five of the top colleges he applied to. Two weeks ago, a "go Eli" call from a Yale alumnus was interrupted by a beep signaling a competing exhortation from Brown. Soon after, Brown asked Rios to join other acceptees on a chartered Amtrak train ride to the school, where a whirl of receptions awaited, as did a brass band...