Word: freights
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...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...
Then there is Local 295, which handles freight at New York City's airports. Carey tried to deliver this corrupt local into the control of an old Teamster hand named William Genoese, but Lacey vetoed Carey's choice. The Lucchese family, it was later revealed, had also been trying to place Genoese in a key union post...
...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...
Once by the railway line, James was kicked, stoned and beaten on the head with bricks and a metal rod until he died. The child's half-unclothed body was then placed across the freight track, said the prosecutor, where it was found two days later, cut in half. "James is only a small child," was the description his mother gave the police the day of his disappearance. "He has brown-blond hair, straight, which is ready for cutting ... he has a full set of baby teeth." But it was already too late...
...songs take chord structures simpler, even, than Lois Maffeo's--simpler than anything; sometimes only two chords will do for a whole song, switching back and forth in sinuously uneven rhythms like the ghosts of hobo-laden freight trains switching tracks. There are no guitar "pyrotechnics" allowed, or even possible, here; there's not even much distortion, despite the Sub Pop name on the label (though recording at AmRep Studios in Minneapolis must have helped to put an electric edge on the guitar sound, an edge that's developed only since last year). Rebecca Gates' playing has to carry...