Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...River Grove, Illinois, a Chicago-bound commuter train plowed into a school bus filled with teenagers, killing seven students and injuring nearly 30 others. The bus had apparently come to a stop for a red light situated just beyond a railroad crossing, with the rear of the bus still extended over the tracks. An investigation is under...
Speculation shifted. Perhaps the note was a cover for someone with a more personal grudge against Amtrak, the Sunset Limited or someone on that doomed train. In Hyder people wondered about a suspicious brush fire that had threatened a wooden railroad bridge, and a stick of dynamite that had turned up unclaimed in an Exxon station men's room nearby. In downtown Phoenix, authorities foiled two men who may have been up to no good with a railroad device called a derailer. National attention focused more on notices recently posted by Amtrak announcing its intention to end direct service...
...needs a showplace, and now Reno has bowling's. It remains an open question, according to Eadington, whether the extra business drawn by the facility will be enough to keep the North Nevada gaming industry healthy and growing over time. Reno is still the kind of city where the railroad tracks run right through the middle of downtown, no matter how many welcome bowlers go up outside the Reno Turf Club. But for Pearson on a recent Saturday, what he sees as he looks down on the 18th annual Reno Nisei Invitational is good news enough: 80 clean, well...
...Ripken didn't just dress and go home. He went back out onto the field for one of his postgame autograph sessions, signing for and kibitzing with 2,000 fans. "Cal Ripken personifies everything that is right with baseball," said Bob Seal, 33, an engineer for the Norfolk Southern Railroad who came up to the game from Chattanooga, Tennessee...
...late to argue that it would be unfair to "railroad" Medicare patients into managed care against their will. Most of us are already in managed care, and few of us had any choice about it: our employers put us there. Managed care can be excellent or terrible--it can achieve its savings by efficiency or by skimping on quality--but for almost everybody it is inevitable. The only question is how we get there...