Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first criminal case stemming from Amtrak's dumping, a jury in a Florida state court convicted the railroad on four felony counts of commercial littering. When sentencing takes place, Amtrak could be fined $20,000 for its offal offense. The railroad, which planned to appeal, said it would halt service in Florida if the decision is upheld. Amtrak defended its foul trail as merely an "aesthetic" problem...
...author of the award-winning M. Butterfly, said his early plays were influenced by the growing ethnic awareness on college campuses in the 1970s. But he said he shifted from the largely assimilationist model of F.O.B. to a more "nationalist-isolationist phase" in such works as Dance on the Railroad and Family Devotions, searching instead for a specifically Asian content and form...
...news here is that the railroad train has been reinvented splendidly. On Nov. 8 at 5:55 p.m., three sleepers, a piano club car and a dining car of the American-European Express, each refitted to five-star, died-and-went-to-heaven standards, will leave Washington's Union Station and roll into legend. The next morning at 10:17, some 50 cosseted passengers, dreamy from a night of love and laughter, aslosh with breakfasts that on a recent test run from Panama City, Fla., to Atlanta included crepes with crabmeat, followed by eggs, spinach, hollandaise sauce and baby lamb...
This is not a cheap undertaking. A salvageable railroad car can cost as little as $25,000, but outfitting it may run to nearly $1 million. A walk through the St. Moritz club car, lately a derelict on a siding in Milwaukee, with broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling...
Partially because the candidates were Democrats, and partly because I am an eternal optimist, I took the job running this campaign. I produced seven coherent strategies for candidates to walk through key neighborhoods. I produced several plans for candidates to greet commuters at railroad stations. I made repeated pleas for candidates to communicate with each other. All were ignored...