Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along 1-75, the highway that runs north from Florida, suburbs branch off, filled with people who, for the most part, found what they came for but expected more for their kids. Near the town of Taylor, Mich., in a house with a Roosevelt commemorative plate on a rail above the table, someone on television is announcing the worst year for car sales since 1961. Lee lacocca, the chairman of Chrysler, insists he is excited about next year. No one listens. The people in the house are talking about neighbors who went to Houston or Tulsa looking for work...
Crusading campus journalists: the phrase seems an echo from the dawn of the 1970s, when liberal young men and women in weathered jeans and lumberjack flannels would rail impassionedly at college deans and Uncle Sam for supposed indifference to the will of the people. In the years since, campuses all but fell silent. Now students are crusading again, attacking the same ready targets but from a diametrically opposite direction: the right...
...falloff in rail travel had turned the white granite building into a mausoleum. The railroads were eager to raze it and put up an office building. There was no longer any need for a station that could support crowds of 175,000, as it had during World War II, or a staff of 5,000 to operate the city within the station: bowling alley, mortuary, bakery, butchery, YMCA hotel, ice house, resident doctor, liquor store, Turkish baths, first-class restaurant, basketball court, swimming pool, nursery, police station and silver-monogramming shop...
...generation ago, a national rail strike might have paralyzed the country. Last week's walkout, however, was no crippler: both the sluggish economy and the diminishing role of rail transport blunted its impact. In the Northeast, service was relatively unaffected since the region's major line, Conrail, was not struck by the engineers. The Southern and the Family Lines systems, the two major railroads in the South, drafted supervisors and other skilled personnel to operate the trains, and most major runs were made...
Hardest hit was the Midwest, hub of the nation's railroad wheel. Burlington Northern, whose headquarters is in St. Paul, is the country's largest rail system, with 800 trains, but it was running fewer than 200. Only twelve of the 46 Amtrak trains that chug out of Chicago daily were operating, while Armco steel shut down eight coal mines in West Virginia, idling 1,400 workers...