Word: railroaded
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...Bill Gates, the founder and chairman of Microsoft, about something he wants to talk about-like a new software system or his upcoming railroad trip through China on Chairman Mao's train -- and he acts like the teenage boy that he still resembles. He grins. His voice breaks. He tucks his elbows into his lap and rocks back and forth as if to contain his excitement. But press Gates on a subject he doesn't want to talk about-like the charges of anticompetitive, and possibly illegal, business practices that have been turning up lately, like ex-girlfriends...
This interest in politics may have led him, at age 17, to enter college in Grand Prairie, Canada, to study political science. Throughout his college years, he worked odd jobs, ranging from bee keeping to working on a railroad with Cree Indians...
JOHN GRISHAM will redefine the term "celebrity lawyer" this fall, when he returns to the courtroom after a five-year hiatus for writing blockbusters like The Client and The Chamber. The author is taking on the Illinois Central Railroad on behalf of the estate of an employee who was killed while at work. He accepted the case in 1991, just after the publication of his first best seller, The Firm...
...POINT IN DOLORES CLAIBORNE is its eponymous protagonist tied to a railroad track or strapped down in the path of a rapidly impending train or buzz saw. And a good thing too, for this adaptation of Stephen King's best seller (does he write anything else?) also lacks a hero, or indeed any remotely admirable masculine figure, eager to race to her rescue...
...nefarious Stiles still needs the Hackett farm in order to make his diabolical plan for a railroad complete. Although Stiles is in many ways the typical villain, he has several faces; all of them are absolutely evil. As a former hired gun, he is a twisted version of the self-made man. His current executive position and gold-lined office parallel him to the "robber barons" of the industrial age, like Carnegie, Morgan and Rockefe