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...performance opened with "Blues Suite"--set to jazz and blues music--a piece that Ailey created in 1958 about people and places from his hometown in Texas. As Ailey explained in his introduction, the train sounds we hear during "Blues Suite" echo those he heard growing up near a railroad track...
Homeless people have camped out in the Santa Barbara area since the Southern Pacific Railroad came to town in 1887. But never before have they seemed so omnipresent. Some attribute the worst of the problem to the wholesale release of patients in the 1960s. Without adequate halfway houses to care for them, the ill ended up on the streets. Others believe homelessness has been aggravated by unemployment, divorce and eviction; people sleep in the parks because they cannot afford the city's high-priced housing: two-bedroom apartments rarely rent for less than $800 a month, after two months' deposit...
...increasing number of firms are testing not only applicants but also certain classes of current employees. Rockwell, for example, makes test pilots give periodic urine samples. Dozens of companies, including the Los Angeles Times, Southern Pacific railroad and Georgia Power, an electric utility, now demand that employees take drug tests if their supervisors think they may be impaired. All the major U.S. oil companies have instituted such a policy for workers on drilling rigs. Since last month, a Federal Railroad Administration regulation has required some 100,000 employees who operate U.S. railroads to undergo urinalysis whenever their supervisors think they...
...SANCTUARY: THE NEW UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by R. Golden and M. McConnell, sold by the Thomas More Bookstore...
Lobbyists and Government officials alike are quick to point out that lobbying is cleaner than in earlier eras, when railroad barons bought Senators as if they were so much rolling stock. "It's an open process now," says Jack Albertine, president of the American Business Conference, a trade association of medium-size, high-growth companies. "All sides are represented, the contributions are reported, and the trade-offs are known to everybody. In the old days you never knew who got what until a waterway project suddenly appeared in someone's district...