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...past 36 years, there has never been an Amtrak strike, but persisting disputes surrounding contract renegotiations may change that. Unless tensions are resolved before the end of the month, an Amtrak strike poses a serious threat to commuters from Boston, New York, and the rest of the Northeast corridor as they will face a limited, more expensive set of transportation alternatives...
Whether or not the ongoing contract dispute devolves into a strike on Jan. 30, this quagmire will have served to remind us that a substantive overhaul of Amtrak is long overdue. The American rail system lags far behind its counterparts in Western Europe and Japan, and it will not catch up anytime soon if Congress insists on simply continuing to subsidize the lackluster and stagnating rail system...
...game plan. To give Brady better targets to throw to, he traded for both the troubled Moss and Dolphins wideout Wes Welker. He also picked up receiver Dont� Stallworth in free agency and signed linebacker Adalius Thomas to a five-year, $35 million deal, the richest unrestricted free-agent contract in team history. For a franchise known for steadily building teams through the draft, low-profile trades and free-agent deals, this overhaul was unexpected...
...Baek too had his doubts earlier this year when he had signed the three-year contract with Trifecta Entertainment. Under the deal, he is slated to record three full-length albums, the first of which will be entitled “Paul’s Passion...
...signed the contract in downtown Seoul, I was traveling back to my grandmother’s on the train afterwards,” he explains. “Suddenly, we went into a tunnel and I saw my reflection in the window, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, did I just make a mistake...