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Industry analysts consider Lewis an excellent choice to turn the company's fortunes around. He founded his own consulting firm, Lewis & Associates, in 1975 and helped guide the reorganization of the ailing Reading Railroad into the Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail). In addition to his experience in capital ways, Lewis' value lies in his background as a corporate troubleshooter. Says Anthony Hoffman, a vice president of the New York City brokerage firm A.G. Becker: "His political reputation and skills will be an added asset when it comes to the hunt for new cable franchises, but what is really being...
...teach you German or to whip you in Pac-Man four out of five. You wished it here because the country was running low on dream time. Which provides equal time. I'm talking social equality. I'm talking freedom with a capital F, like when the railroad first rolled in 150 years ago, roaring and puffing over the countryside, scaring the chickens and the cows, but offering everyone a ride all the same, that's everyone, I say, giving the Republic to the people. Just like the computer...
...present of losing jobs, families and homes. The initial round of news coverage, portraying Tent City as a virtual human metaphor for the effects of the recession, prompted a mammoth, warmhearted response from the Houston community. Everything from fresh fruit to live poultry began arriving. Says Howard Sandoz, a railroad inspector who brought over 12 lbs. of steak: "I saw the tent people on TV and thought about all the food I had. I'm just doing my part." Houston-area companies contributed tents, rolls of plastic, Coleman stoves, water tanks and portable toilets. Stacks of donated firewood, piles...
...wonder. Those tin boxes have stopped looking like railroad cars. Priced from $7,500 to upwards of $80,000, mobile homes now come with pitched roofs, wood siding and such optional amenities as sunken baths, hot tubs and wood-burning fireplaces. Some developers link two or more of these units together to form spacious homes that look at first glance like site-built dwellings...
According to testimony at the hearing, the engineer and the brakeman of the train were both drinking just before, and possibly during, the brief run from Baton Rouge to the site of the wreck. Moreover, Janet Byrd, a clerk employed by the railroad, not only was in the cab of the engine at the time of the derailment but was at the controls because the engineer had dozed off. The hearing also revealed that both Engineer Edward Robertson and Brakeman Russell Reeves had been suspended several times by the railroad-Robertson for a variety of operational errors, including speed violations...