Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central city of Okayama, Japan's gleaming, automated bullet trains have long been a keen source of pride to the country and the envy of railroad men the world over. Yet, beneath the bright image of the Shinkansen, or bullet express, most of the country's rail service, operated by the government-owned Japanese National Railways, is a tangled, money-losing mess of aged equipment, angry employees and boiling riders. So bad is the trouble that a few weeks ago, JNR President Satoshi Isozaki abruptly quit and, to emphasize the discouraging nature of the job, pointedly refused...
...probably the world's most poorly served travelers. Because scheduled runs are inadequate and cars too small for transportation needs, the line has the familiar permanent "shovers" at busy stations to ram passengers into suffocatingly close-packed trains. Last spring, during a labor slowdown, riders finally exploded, attacked rail workers, rampaged through stations and caused damages of more than $30 million...
...reverse the rail system's dangerously downhill direction, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, an avid train buff, helped push through the Diet a ten-year, $40 billion program to upgrade JNR's equipment and tracks...
...next dozen years. Though Tanaka's political opponents agree that JNR must be improved, they argue that the $40 billion plan is too lavish and will give a big push to inflation, already at 13%. The unions are not overly impressed either. They plan yet another paralyzing rail slowdown next month...
...quelled the rebellion with the most violent means available including arms obtained at the spur of the moment from abroad. However, the Ceylon elite seems not to have gotten the message that there was something seriously wrong with the educational system. How else, asks Dore, could a Ceylon newspaper rail at the existence of "clusters of clean young men whom we thought were being groomed to be scholars with their bundles of books and earnest looks (who) prowl menacingly around; firearms in their hands and murder in their eyes...