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...grew three times as fast as passenger transport by rail - leaving rail's share of journeys at just 6%. The €10 billion rail-freight business has fared even worse: its share of the European Union market has collapsed from 21% in 1970 to just 8% today. (By comparison, about 40% of freight goes by rail in the U.S.) Things have got so bad that Britain's Royal Mail last month ended 173 years of tradition by announcing that it will stop using rail altogether for transporting letters. "Quite simply, other forms of transport can give us the same benefits...
...people I feel really bad for are the graduate students who are supposed to be researching their bachelor dissertations now,” he added. “I think my situation isn’t that bad [in comparison...
...most worrisome comparison for the Bush administration may be in the duration. Vietnam, after all, saw U.S. troops tied down on a distant battlefield for ten years. Although he did his best before the war to downplay suggestions by uniformed officers that an Iraq occupation mission would be long and costly, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz now appears ready to acknowledge that U.S. troops could be there for the next ten years, and will probably require the construction of permanent bases - and also that together with the Afghanistan mission, the Iraq security mission will likely cost around $54 billion...
...problems is the financial crisis facing the municipal government. The Berlin city council, known as the Senate, will present its 2004 budget next week. According to Finance Minister Thilo Sarrazin, Berlin has a j46 billion debt and next year will run a whopping €4.3 billion deficit. By comparison, New York City is suffering its worst budget crisis in 30 years, but has only come up short by €2.8 billion. And New York has 8 million residents to share the pain, compared with Berlin's 3.4 million. What makes it harder for Berliners to bear is that they...
...from Evans and virtual dominance on the boards behind junior Rene Paradise and sophomore Anne Osmun—who took first and second on the three-meter board, as well as second and third on the one-meter—the Crimson’s individual accomplishments paled in comparison to the awesome power of the Tigers’ machine...