Word: freight-car
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...think there is a steady recovery under way. We expect it to continue," says Scott Painter, CEO of TrueCar.com, an online car-buying guide. That bullish view is supported by a new round of positive economic signals. While consumer confidence remains shaky, underlying economic indexes, such as freight-car loadings and oil-rig counts, show that the overall economic picture is improving. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...plans to ship a freight-car sized containerof food to Albania next week. Once in Albania, thefood and money will be distributed by two Islamicaid organizations...
...pushed the rails into the modern world in 1980 with a deregulation bill that allowed the lines to make quick market adjustments of fees and practices. The rails shrank their lines a third (to 196,081 miles), sweated employment from more than half a million to 280,000, doubled freight-car capacity by stacking containers, curbed damage to products. They hauled 40% more freight with 40% fewer cars, bored out mountain tunnels to take the 20-ft.-high stacks, lowered roadbeds beneath highways and city streets, upgraded beds and bridges and steel rails to the best condition in history...
...habit, in The Eiger Sanction, of hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder to Herman Wouk and The Winds of War, praising the historical research, quoting a description of F.D.R. and announcing: "This is not at all bad, except as prose...
...acres of industrial sites scattered along its right of way. >Menk cut paper work by ordering 419 forms discontinued, including one that took five hours to prepare and was then promptly filed and forgotten, has also trimmed 1,200 employees from the payroll, shifted others. >To regulate freight-car movements more efficiently, the Burlington is leasing an IBM 360 computer, is also building a $6,500,000 private microwave system to speed computer data between Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul...