Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What forced action on the railroad crisis was the end of the 37-day moratorium that Congress had approved in March to block a strike threat by 6,000 intransigent sheet-metal workers-who constitute only 1% of all rail employees but have the power to halt the railroads. Last week, as the end of the moratorium approached and no agreement had been reached between railroad management and the workers, Congress reluctantly turned to an unusual solution. By legislative action, it imposed what would be the terms of the unions' next two-year contract-an action that some labor...
...almost a year, officials of the Nixon Administration had been forecasting an imminent drop in interest rates-and encountering growing skepticism. By mid-March, Treasury Under Secretary Charls Walker resignedly told the Senate Finance Committee: "It's just like the Long Island Rail Road-if you wait for the train long enough, it's bound to arrive." Last week it finally did. New York's Irving Trust Co. led major U.S. banks in cutting their "prime" business-loan rate by half a point...
...reports. "Certainly public transport in a city like New York is a disaster. The subway system is one of the dirtiest I have ever seen ?worse than London?and is by all odds the hardest to use. A visitor now is usually spared the rigors of long rail journeys because there are hardly any trains. Even airline efficiency in the U.S. is no longer so great. I have seldom experienced anything in Europe that approaches those hour-long holds over Kennedy Airport...
...another dream that totally destroyed all of my confidence. Cavanagh came zipping down on me, and ten times out of ten, he flipped the puck past me into the open net. And every shot was put into the same corner. The fans roared, and behind me, over the rail of the cage I could see the Master grinning like a fiend flicking the red light on and off like a madman. I woke up sweating...
...Harvard wrestling team got back on the winning rail with a convincing 24-13 victory over Columbia Saturday afternoon in the IAB to stay one step behind Ivy League leader Princeton and to set up a crucial confrontation with the Tigers Saturday at Princeton...