Word: railroads
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...rail company disagrees. Covington said CSX’s attorneys understanding is that the amendment gives CSX obligation of maintenance dealing with railroad operations, but all other maintenance responsibility remain with the property owner...
...tracks where the incident took place are on a 91-acre plot of land that was recently purchased by Harvard University. But the issue is complicated by the fact that the railroad company CSX has an easement on the land, according to Harvard spokeswoman Lauren Mashall...
...upside-down A becomes a drippy ice-cream cone or a sideways E turns into an electric plug. Ernst's ingenuity is equal even to the challenge of letters that don't change when turned, like O (a bagel, an owl's eye, a fried egg) and X (a railroad-crossing sign, a treasure map's end, a ballerina's shoe ribbons...
That left Snow, former CEO of railroad company CSX, the last man standing. Yet his triumph in the Cabinet sweepstakes could soon be tested. This week the White House will stage a two-day conference designed to highlight Bush's ambitious second-term domestic plans. To sell that package, Snow will need even more support from Bush, especially against the current backdrop of sluggish job growth, a slumping dollar, and record trade and fiscal deficits. --By Adam Zagorin and James Carney
There aren't many old-timers, by cracky, who saw the Red Sox lose their first World Series, way back in 1946. I was 16 and hitchhiked from Iowa City, Iowa, to St. Louis, Mo., for Game 1. I slept in the railroad station and bought a $3 standing-room ticket for behind home plate. The Sox tied the game in the ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers--and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids...