Word: railroad
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...THROWING A CURVE INTO TRAIN TRAVel -- a more than 100-m.p.h. curve. The national rail service's new X2000 high-speed train began operating on the Washington-New York Metroliner route. The X2000 can go up to 155 m.p.h., but until it gets speed clearance from the Federal Railroad Administration, it will operate at the normal Metroliner maximum speed of 125 m.p.h. Still, it goes from D.C. to N.Y.C. in 2 hr. 40 min. -- 15 min. faster than conventional trains. Its secret: a hydraulic tilting system that helps it take curves 40% faster...
...seems hard to find someone in Los Angeles who is not running for mayor. Among the 52 candidates who have filed for the race -- apparently the largest number in the city's history -- are a bus driver, a banker, two millionaires, a disabled veteran, a railroad worker, a retired policeman, a plumber and an actor-tax preparer. The leading contenders include city councilman Mike Woo, state assemblyman Richard Katz and lawyer Richard Riordan. The biggest problem: fitting all the names on the ballot, which comes in seven languages...
...support of Nunn, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Nunn, who is a close confidant of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, often seems to believe that all military matters are best disposed by him and that anything else is an attempt to railroad the Pentagon bureaucracy. But Clinton tapped Aspin to deal with Nunn in part because relations between the Senator and the President have never been great. The ( White House has not forgotten Nunn's lukewarm effort on behalf of Clinton during the Georgia primary last year, nor his sudden disappearance from...
Harvard police arrested a man in the Science Center yesterday on charges of larceny, trespassing, and selling false railroad passes--possibly to students...
These efforts at prevention will not eliminate accidents, however. "One of the biggest fears I have now is highway and railroad spills," says Nicholas Crawford, director of the Center for Cave and Karst Studies at Western Kentucky. Two years ago, a freight train carrying hazardous chloroform jumped the tracks near Lewisburg, Tennessee. "If that train had derailed in Bowling Green, it would have been a catastrophe," Crawford says...