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Canny West Virginia Congressman Harley Staggers pushed the rails into the modern world in 1980 with a deregulation bill that allowed the lines to make quick market adjustments of fees and practices. The rails shrank their lines a third (to 196,081 miles), sweated employment from more than half a million to 280,000, doubled freight-car capacity by stacking containers, curbed damage to products. They hauled 40% more freight with 40% fewer cars, bored out mountain tunnels to take the 20-ft.-high stacks, lowered roadbeds beneath highways and city streets, upgraded beds and bridges and steel rails...
Credit-union loan to purchase a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle
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...MALE NOVELISTS WITH A YEN to be Danielle Steel: a motorcycle will haul almost any load of sentimental mush. Robert Olmstead knows this. In his novel AMERICA BY LAND (Random House; $20), Ray Redfield, 23 and drifting, heads out on his Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming...
...have much to worry about in the long run. When the dust clears, they will still own some of the most modern and flexible production plants in the world, not to mention much of the best automotive technology. "The Japanese carmakers have serious problems but also impressive strengths," says Harley Shaiken, a professor of technology at the University of California at San Diego. "They are still going to be major innovators. One of their strongest attributes has been the ability to rebound...