Word: railroaded
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...outsider idyllic, exemplary and very fragile. That is precisely what a young widow named Rachel (the glowing Kelly McGillis) and her son Samuel (Lukas Haas) discover when they go to visit her sister. For during a layover in Philadelphia, the little boy visits the men's room in the railroad station and witnesses a brutal murder...
Dittler was founded in 1902 by Brothers Emil and Alex Dittler as a printer of railroad schedules. But by the 1970s it had expanded its product range to include business cards, hotel directories and contest tickets. Says Dittler Chairman Gilbert Bachman: "We had already produced literally billions of promotional game tickets for other companies, so it was just a matter of taking our know-how and applying it to the instant lottery ticket concept...
...become much tougher. Reason: stockholders and Government regulators, notably the Securities and Exchange Commission, have begun taking directors to task for failing to perform their duties properly. In a landmark decision last week, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that ten former directors of Trans Union, a railroad-equipment leasing company, were financially liable for selling their company too hastily in 1980. A lawsuit filed on behalf of 10,000 shareholders claimed that the directors spent just two hours considering a purchase offer of $55 a share, or $688 million in total, while the company may have been worth as much...
...typical base community in the town of Campos Eliseos, 14 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, 30 local residents meet every Friday night in a cinder- ^ block home to read the Bible and discuss their problems. Antonio Joinhas, 44, a railroad signalman, relates how one study session inspired a local public health center. "After reading how one biblical community helped another to overcome a problem, we decided we could work together too. We all supplied the manpower and raised money for materials from the community. Now we've got a health center, and it came from the Bible...
...generally acknowledged to have been the L.I.R.R.'s nadir, a period of such egregious discomfort that at least a small part of the growth of the Sunbelt can be traced to the conditions on the commuter line. The railroad was 150 last year, and there are definite signs of improvement. Last year 88.5% of the trains arrived within five minutes of the schedule--up 6% since 1979. It may be better than it was in the '70s, but it is not yet as good as it was in 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House lay in Oyster...