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...protected propeller that did not easily foul in the shallows. Show us, said the Navy. Higgins took over an entire block of New Orleans' Polyminia Street, set up floodlights, put machines and people to work around the clock. Fourteen days later, with the last paint applied as the freight flatcars clacked east, nine Higgins boats rolled into Norfolk, Virginia. The Navy would use 20,094 of the homely floaters before the war ended...
...packed New York-to-Florida Amtrak passenger train derailed in North Carolina, apparently after crashing into a cargo container jutting out from a passing northbound freight train. The engineer was killed and hundreds were injured, most slightly...
...computer networks may be no more ready than the TV networks to handle the freight of the information superhighway. Today's personal computers are too low-powered -- and the modems that connect them to the phone lines too slow -- to transmit and process video signals in real time, as they are broadcast. Even if everybody were to replace their PCs with the new, more powerful models coming into the market, someone would still have to build an electronic highway fast and wide enough to carry the traffic...
...reduction policies and fiscal prudence that Clinton has so far demonstrated." Besides the saxophone, both men have in common a love of policy and statistical minutiae: if Clinton can cite the number of medically uninsured workers in most of the 50 states, Greenspan is said to follow how many freight cars are loaded in Texas. Their first preinaugural conversation lasted more than four hours...
...climate of extreme worry about employment prospects, however, NAFTA has picked up an enormous load of symbolic freight. Opponents -- most prominently labor unions and Ross Perot's movement -- see, not entirely wrongly, the U.S. economy being hurt by growing foreign competition, and view NAFTA, less logically, as the latest in a succession of what Perot calls "dumb trade agreements" that have taken a grievous toll of American jobs. Proponents regard the pact as an unavoidable necessity if the U.S. is going to compete with the trade blocs forming in Europe and Asia. Rejection, they argue, would be a futile...