Word: freighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bonds deserves a little respect. Steroids or not, he may be the best pure hitter in baseball history. "Does Bonds carry the freight for all the sins of his generation?" asks noted baseball historian--and current Boston Red Sox adviser--Bill James. No, he says, "he can't ... Bonds is our home-run champion. We should respect and honor him, just like we did Henry Aaron...
...French President François Mitterand officially opened a similar experiment: The Chunnel, the underwater tunnel to connect England and France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...
...both governments to solicit part of an estimated $10 billion budget from the European Union are not reassuring. Since the completion of the English Channel tunnel, shares of stock that funded the project lost a great percentage of their value and operator Eurotunnel is limping with minimal hope that freight and passenger train traffic will increase...
...issues in his young life: casual sex, his broken family or certainly school. The legendary hangout is East Side Park, known to the hard core skateboarders as Paranoid Park. One night he lends his board to a stranger who in exchange offers to show him how to ride a freight train. It was a surprise to me that young people today even knew there were trains, let alone freight trains, let alone an outlaw tradition of riding the rails. Maybe Alex has some hobo blood in him, or is a Woody Guthrie fan. Please advise...
...hard landing ensued. In the first quarter of this year, inflation at 2.7% was at its highest level in two years, and money supply in China has been, in the view of some economists, excessive for quite a while now. Is fine-tuning really an option? Or is this freight train now rolling with such momentum that a messy derailment is likely, if not inevitable? Jun Ma, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in Hong Kong, has been one of the more accurate forecasters of the Chinese economy in recent years. He still believes the inflation threat is manageable...