Word: railroads
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...reparations from the U.S. government--a move that has little support in Congress--advocates are taking a cue from successful compensation suits by Holocaust victims and focusing on corporations. Among the defendants are such insurance companies as Aetna; financial-services companies, including FleetBoston and J.P. Morgan Chase; and such railroad giants as CSX and Union Pacific. Although the municipal ordinances don't address reparations, they require companies to research their records to disclose whether they benefited from slavery--information that could help identify "specific targets for reparations," says Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a New York attorney leading the campaign. "Multibillion-dollar...
Nick, meanwhile, was spending the summer in Japan, and Sam and Kieran had planned to take the Trans-Siberian railroad to meet him there. Aaron would also fly into Japan, and the four had a joke that they would meet in front of the Tokyo Museum on August 12 at precisely...
Currently, the University’s acreage in Allston more closely resembles a patchwork of run-down commercial properties than a college campus—the parcel Harvard is most likely to build on first is currently crossed by railroad lines, dotted with gas stations and dominated by a large trucking facility...
...acres of Allston land to the University. A CSX railyard lies on part of this property, a vital link in Boston’s freight and commuter rail transportation network. This link should not be severed, but at the same time, selling the land to Harvard will endanger the railroad...
Harvard poses no threat to the Allston railyard in the foreseeable future. Harvard has publicly pledged not to disrupt the operations of this vital piece of infrastructure, and it couldn’t, even if it wanted to. CSX, a major freight railroad company, holds permanent easements to the land, guaranteeing their right to use the railyard no matter who owns the property it sits on. And even if CSX were to sell or forfeit its easement, Harvard, by state law, could still not touch the railyard without the approval of the transportation secretary. As long as that railyard...