Word: railroading
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...Known as Allston Landing, the land was previously used for industrial purposes, and is currently crossed by railroad tracks...
...engineering as evil because it is unsettling. But moral theory should be more than a summation of the circumstances under which one gets the willies. Genetic engineering is indeed "inhumane" if we think only of those things to which humans have historically been accustomed--but then so is the railroad, wearing clothes and refraining from killing one another. Reasons are required to decide which new practices are acceptable and which beyond the pale...
DIED. O. WINSTON LINK, 86, photographer whose elegiac shots mourned the departure of steam engines from American railroads in the 1950s; in South Salem, N.Y. He was found dead in his car outside a train station near his home. Link covered 2,300 miles of track on his journeys, later saying, "I was one man, and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could...
...captured a shaky image of two 10-year-old boys leading a much smaller boy out of a Liverpool, England, shopping center. The boys lured James Bulger, 2, away from his mother, who was shopping, and led him on a long walk across town. The excursion ended at a railroad track. There, inexplicably, the older boys tortured the toddler, kicking him, smearing paint on his face and pummeling him to death with bricks before leaving him on the track to be dismembered by a train. The boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, then went off to watch cartoons...
...economic uprising that rocked eToys, Priceline.com Pets.com and all the other www.s has now spread to blue-chip tech companies and Old Economy stalwarts. Now it's Microsoft warning, for the first time in more than a decade, that quarterly earnings will lag behind estimates. It's Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing for bankruptcy for the second time in 14 years. It's Montgomery Ward announcing that it is ending 128 years of American retailing history by closing its 250 stores and pink-slipping its 37,000 employees...