Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actor Paul Newman, a founder of Energy Action, a consumer group, said in Washington last week that the whole operation makes "the railroad robber barons look like cheap stuff." Ralph Nader claimed that consumers were being forced to pay for the pipeline without having a say in management...
...single abstract function: Kentucky lies on one side, West Virginia on the other. Splayed out from both banks are noiseless hollows and stubbly, once-farmed bottoms, all in the shadow of Appalachian mountains, which rise dark and gorgeous in every direction. But to the businessmen who brought the railroad through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan...
Sadat's program hardly touched the lives of Egypt's poverty-stricken masses. Mokhtar Younis, 54, is a baggage porter at the Cairo railroad station and lives in a nearby slum. He is able to get work only about 15 days a month, for which he receives a monthly take-home pay of about $14. He and his wife Ne'mat, 28, live with their eleven children in a single room that measures just...
...Business School professor is leaving Harvard to become the first vice chairman of Union Pacific Corporation, one of the largest railroad and oil concerns in the world...
Union Pacific is currently involved with two mergers, and Meyer's basic theory is that railroad service can best be improved by "end-to-end" mergers as opposed to "parallel" mergers...