Word: railroading
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...negotiated a return to a 40-hour week for the 4,000 workers at its two phone plants in Germany. Philips is discussing increasing working hours at its Hamburg semiconductor plant as part of a cost-cutting plan. Automakers DaimlerChrysler and Opel, the German arm of General Motors, and railroad firm Deutsche Bahn are currently negotiating longer hours with their unions. The German rollback has become possible because of new union contracts that allow for extended working hours in exchange for investment guarantees. But companies are also talking tough. Siemens isn't paying more wages for the extra hours...
Howard has always been clear about her own path. Her parents ran a company in Pasadena, Calif., that engineered railroad-signal components. Their work inspired her to learn to solder and familiarize herself with machine parts. Three years ago, hoping to encourage others to follow in her footsteps, Howard launched a math-and-science mentoring program for at-risk junior high school girls. Fighting cultural pressures takes time; one talented math student told Howard she planned to be a hair stylist. Still, Howard hopes the program will help steer more young women into robotics, a field she says that within...
...explain. There are about 175,000 U.S. railfans, almost all men, estimates Kevin Keefe of Trains magazine. They have clubs, websites and vacation excursions. They are, like all hobbyists, consumed by the cataloging of minutiae. "They're just attracted to trains," says John Bromley, spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad, who admits halfway through our conversation that he too is a railfan...
...separate-but-equal” laws began on Monday, May 18, 1896, when the Court voted 7 to 1 that Adolph H. Plessy could be set apart in a Louisiana railroad car solely because of his race. It is ironic that, on a Court with only one Southerner and four graduates of Harvard and Yale, only John Marshall Harlan—himself a former slaveowner—dissented with words as evergreen as the cedars of Lebanon: “There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind?...
This morning the Junior University crew paddled over the two-mile course, holding the stroke at 20. In the afternoon, it rowed to the railroad bridge and over the four mile course. This was a hard row against the tide, with the stroke beginning at 24. At the finish mark, however, the stroke was 39, and the time proved...