Word: railroads
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Under the current policy, students who live less than a mile from school are not provided busing except under certain situations, such as if walking safety barriers--such as railroad tracks--exist...
...first century of corporate Mormonism, the church's leaders were partners, officers or directors in more than 900 Utah-area businesses. They owned woolen mills, cotton factories, 500 local co-ops, 150 stores and 200 miles of railroad. Moreover, when occasionally faced with competition, they insisted that church members patronize LDS-owned businesses. Eventually this became too much for the U.S. Congress. In 1887 it passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act, specifically to smash the Mormons' vertical monopolies...
...trying to detonate one of the explosive devices. Two of the men, identified as Jhazi Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, carried Jordanian passports, according to CNN. The third man reportedly had no identification papers. Police believe the three were planning to attack a nearby Long Island Railroad station as well as several subway lines. Although Guiliani said that there is so far no concrete connection between the men and yesterday's suicide bombing in Israel, federal terrorism investigators are probing that possibility. Police were tipped-off to the plot late Wednesday by a source who said there were...
...appears inevitable that by the end of summer, the mine will close and the last 120 miners will lose their jobs. It will be the latest in a series of hard-luck hits for the area, which lost 30 or 40 businesses, its only hospital and the CSX railroad when the Black Fork River flooded in 1985. Another flood in early 1996 provided sufficient excuse for a shoe plant employing 135 to close down and move abroad. That makes a small charcoal plant with 150 workers the largest single employer in Tucker County, where many of the miners reside. Beyond...
...peace and relative prosperity Americans are enjoying has made them less fearful of economic change. Gene Wilson, who has been a Chrysler dealer in Flora, Ill. (pop. 5,400), for 50 years, says he has become convinced of the underlying resilience of local economies. "When we lost the railroad depot years ago, we thought we were done for, but then we had an oil boom. When that ended, we thought we were done for, but then a shoe factory came. Then that closed, but we had companies like Minwax, Haliburton, Sparton horns and a German company, Hella, that makes relay...