Word: railroading
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...suspects then allegedly drove Rook to the railroad tracks beneath the BU Bridge on the Cambridge side of the river, where they stabbed her to death and threw her into the water. Her body floated to the spot where it was discovered the next...
ADRS, RED CHIPS AND H SHARES Some of China's biggest companies, including Guangshen Railroad and Huaneng Power, trade in the U.S. as American Depository Receipts. Ten firms are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, one on the NASDAQ. Other blue chips trade in Hong Kong as H shares or red chips, including telecom operators China Mobile and China Unicom. Among stocks trading in Hong Kong, Theleen especially likes the well-run Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and Li Fung, a service firm helping foreign businesses set up in China...
...valley of opulence between the Barker Center and the Faculty Club, there rests a small yellow building which was allegedly once the house of an eccentric Harvard professor with a penchant for abolition and defecation. The house is rumored to have once been a stop on the underground railroad to Canada, but it is also famed for its second floor toilette...
...precisely what the bad guys had in mind the last time the U.S. faced a serious threat to homeland security. In 1942 two German submarines landed teams of four people each at Amagansett, N.Y., and Ponte Vedra, Fla. The Germans were supposed to blow up hydroelectric plants, key railroad junctions and spread terror in New York by bombing railroad stations and Jewish-owned department stores. The operation was a fiasco; within two weeks, all eight men were caught (six were later executed), but the threat was, and is, real...
Business and political leaders in the U.S., Canada and Russia are mulling a plan to build a railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have...