Word: freighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...House leadership aides was extremely skeptical of the idea. ?How do you stop a freight train?? But another top aide said it would be discussed, showing just how direly the fiscal situation is regarded in the Republican conference...
...pleaded my case as best I could,? DeFede says. ?I went from consoling this man, to finding he was dead. To them sneaking me in through the back entrance, the freight entrance, of the Herald to avoid the police out front. They are firing me and they're still cleaning up Art Teele's blood in the lobby.? Fiedler says his decision to fire DeFede was based solely on the taped telephone call. He denies that it had anything to do with criticism of DeFede from the expatriate Cuban community in Miami. The Cuban exile community had been angered...
...Paris, breaking embassy windows in Jakarta or wrecking a slum-area store in Los Angeles-with a phrase like 'reckless, ignorant vandalism' is a political judgment," Cohen has written. He agrees with Fordham University Sociologist John M. Martin that every act of vandalism carries a heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage on a new technology that threatened their handicraft jobs...
Today's heady success is only the beginning, according to Burr. Says he: "In five years, People Express will be a worldwide transportation company, carrying people and freight, and packaging hotels and rent-a-cars, the works." Some skeptics, though, think that People could instead end up like Laker Airways, the cut-rate transatlantic carrier that expanded too fast and went bankrupt...
Molina’s songs aren’t technical masterpieces; they often consist of only three or four chords. Their beauty is simple, residing in the ethereal swoop of the slide guitar and the relentless emotional onslaught of the rhythm section. Listening to them is like riding a freight train with no brakes: there is a sense of unimpeachable momentum and force. When their songs demand it, each and every musician in Molina’s circle is more than able to play eloquent phrases...