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Railroad talk is Brobdingnagian by nature. The lines bind every corner of America and are pushing increasingly into Mexico and Canada as trade builds. Those 12 top freight lines alone own 1,189,660 cars and 18,964 locomotives, which together could make a train that would stretch halfway around the globe...
...will have to be borrowed and will add to the budget deficit. On Saturday, he returned to the area with nearly half his Cabinet to talk about the region's needs, and promised to send federal troops if necessary. Clinton is determined not to get caught in the same bind as George Bush, who reacted slowly to hurricanes in Florida, Hawaii and South Carolina and got himself blamed not only for failing to relieve suffering but also for slowing economic recovery in those areas. But the President and his aides insisted that Washington could not make up flood losses dollar...
...have been awakened more clearly than ever before to the absolute necessity for the Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street to put its house in order, and for the administration of this institution to sever the outdated, inextricable bonds of budgetary and administrative decision- making which still bind together the two separate entities of the Carpenter Center and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies...
That's welcome news to the parents of 3 million American kids with lead poisoning. But getting the lead out is not easy. Some children endured a procedure called chelation, in which drugs that bind to the metal are administered intravenously; others took nutritional supplements. And any home with peeling lead paint -- the most common cause of poisoning -- had to undergo extensive repairs...
...Crimson is in a really, really tight bind, though--like, say, in the NCAA finals--it'll be okay to depend on her, right? Just a tiny...