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...Anyway, we had a wonderful time. And that?s precisely my point, and the point I hope everyone at Amtrak, and everyone who?s trying to help Amtrak, will latch on to. As everyone who?s ever backpacked through Europe knows, rail travel can be everything we expect: Exciting, punctual, even a little bit romantic. At the heart of Amtrak are the beginnings of a great rail system, and whether it's a matter of tough love (i.e. less federal funding) or not-so-tough love (as much money as they can spend), I hope someone will figure out exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'd Love to Love Amtrak — But It's Hard | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...said. Volume, the second-leading cause, accounted for 14 percent (63,048 delays), a 42.3 percent increase over the previous year. And New York's LaGuardia Airport, which loosened restrictions on the number of flights during the last four months of the year, was the nation's least punctual airport, with 18,026 volume delays, or 28.6 percent of the national total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix Flight Delays | 2/1/2001 | See Source »

...mayor, the governor, or whoever, they have full control over that state. I think in the future what we maybe have to do is come together and be more like a congress in a sense and elect one president to operate and veto or get vetoed. You become more punctual that way - all minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Mitchell Diggs, a.k.a. Divine | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...sprinkle in a few, and list your hobbies as boccie playing and fine-tuning your grandma's lasagna recipe. Or maybe, in order to reassure voters that you're harmless because culturally you're already Swiss, you could list your hobbies as eating heavy food, reminding others to be punctual and responding to attempts at humor by frowning and saying, "Is that meant to be funny, or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Elected as a Citizen | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...April 15 deadline (this year pushed back in most states to April 17). Yet, although the mayhem of tax day seems to belie the facts, data complied by Syracuse University Researches indicates that those lines are probably getting shorter--and it's not because taxpayers are becoming any more punctual. Congressional defunding of the IRS' auditing budget, combined with a dwindling staff and a series of complex new regulations enacted by the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 have led to decreases in auditing and less enforcement of penalties for delinquent taxpayers. It's a cheater's dream come...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Taxing the Best Work of the IRS | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

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