Word: railcar
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...take long for the rest of the country to read his lips. Within two weeks, Los Angeles County abruptly canceled a perfectly legitimate railcar contract with Sumitomo, a Japanese company. Next, major-league baseball reacted with disdain to a Japanese offer to buy the failing Seattle baseball team. Baseball, said the game's commissioner, countenanced only North American ownership. It is a rather odd America-first policy that counts Canada as an American appendage. Odd too that a sport so bent on maintaining national purity should play in a park where Barry Bonds is announced as the "voltigeur de gauche...
...manmade caverns, then completely covered over. Aboveground, a typical waste burial site is expected to look something like a mining operation. The method of waste transport is also an issue unaddressed by the bill. The preferred mode is by train; the Energy Department claims success testing a 150-ton railcar cask able to withstand crashes and fires. In the lengthy saga of nuclear-waste disposal, acknowledged a spokesman for the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade group for the nuclear industry, "transportation could be the next big issue." Said David Berick of the Environmental Policy Center: "One of the reasons...