Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of President Reagan's privatization drive, the Government sold 85% of Conrail, the freight line that hauls everything from coal to cars. The $1.65 billion stock issue, priced at $28 a share, was the largest initial public offering in U.S. history. Wall Street gave the stock a green light: on the first day of trading, Conrail was the Big Board's most active issue. By week's end shares closed...
...Mexico's Bernalillo County and a daily viewer of religious TV, contributes upwards of $10,000 a year to televangelists. He is irritated by all the criticism of the Bakkers. "These people have done a lot of good in their lives," he says. I. Delbert Rose, an Idaho freight salesman, is not bothered by the lavish life-style that the Robertses and the Bakkers are said to enjoy. To him, "their rewards should be great, because they've done great things for the Lord...
Artistically, Starlight hurtles toward the freight yards of fiasco. Even by its own standards -- its creators seek to be judged in the context of Disneyland, not Sweeney Todd -- it is too much of the same thing going on for too long. And unlike Disneyland, Starlight is a passive experience: the audience doesn't come along for the ride, physically or emotionally. After opening moments of real wonder, the dramatic tension depends increasingly on what tricks the set can do next: opening the floor to send up a concealed bedroom or judging stand; filling the midnight sky with stars that sketch...
...issue is more than $50 million in compensatory and punitive damages claimed by 65 plaintiffs, following a train wreck in Sturgeon, Mo., on the night of Jan. 10, 1979. A tank car on a Norfolk & Western freight broke a coupling and derailed, spilling 19,000 gallons of orthochlorophenol. Sturgeon was evacuated for two days while the spill was cleaned up. Then Monsanto announced that the spilled chemical contained a minute amount of dioxin, the type designated as 2,3,7,8-TCDD and described as the most toxic synthetic chemical known to man. A mere thimbleful was involved. But because...
...freight train on a track and himself...