Word: freights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eric Lindros shoots a puck like a cannon and hits opponents like a freight train. As such, the 19-year-old Canadian junior and Olympic star qualifies as a franchise player, which is how at least three National Hockey League teams have treated him since he was the No. 1 draft selection in 1991. But Lindros, from Ontario, refused to play for the team that picked him, the league-lagging Quebec Nordiques, triggering a legal brawl that pitted the Philadelphia Flyers against the New York Rangers. An arbitrator ruled Philadelphia the winner, but at a hefty price. The Flyers will...
...stop, idling three General Motors plants, stranding goods and produce on their way to market and even causing the cancellation of a performance by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Outside the Northeast, Amtrak passengers scrambled for rental cars and airline tickets as service that normally runs along freight lines was disrupted. The strike, however, was temporarily ended 48 hours after it began when Congress approved a bill calling for an arbitrator to settle the disagreement...
...shutdown was triggered by a dispute between the machinists union and CSX Transportation, one of the nation's largest freight railroads, over wages and work conditions. Most other freight companies ceased operations, claiming that their many interconnections made it impossible for them to work without CSX. The unions countered that it was a lockout. The disagreement involves unions representing only about 20,000 workers, but 200,000 other rail workers were thrown out of work, and hundreds of thousands more were affected by the shutdown...
...case, Congress proved it can move quickly if necessary, taking just two days to pass a bill calling for a 35-day cooling-off period and a list of government-approved arbitrators to settle the conflict. Freight railroads restored full service by the end of last week. "I'm sure that members are glad to see that we're getting back to work," said David Turner, chairman of Local 612 of the machinists union, in Lincoln, Neb. "But the only drawback is that it's not resolved...
...supported Otisca had retired and their successors were focusing on near-term marketing projects. Only one of the five, Zurn Industries, makers of boilers and pollution-control equipment for power plants, was interested in backing the grant. But Zurn was not prepared to carry the $3.5 million freight alone. In December 1990 Otisca reluctantly withdrew from the DOE Clean Coal Round No. 2 and forfeited its grant. Otisca still had contracts with clients to supply varying amounts of its fuel. But none of them was willing to put up the big stakes necessary to convert significant power plants from...