Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simple: seven years ago, a group of high-rolling local businessmen started thinking that a Knoxville World's Fair would be a nifty thing to whip up. Local citizens were dubious, and some are now peeved. But what was not long ago a desolate downtown patch of rail sidings and weeds is now a nearly complete 77-acre complex of gleaming pavilions, an aerial tramway, a fabric-covered amphitheater and a quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which...
...very illuminating and funny; Schaap's diagnosis of what makes George rant and rave does make sense. Yet amidst all the stories and jokes, Schaap fails to address questions that the presence in the sports world of men like Steinbrenner has raised. Those who deride Steinbrenner tend to rail on him for two activities: meddling in on-the-field decisions, and jacking up baseball salaries to an insane level. With his general mockery of Steinbrenner, Schaap suggests that he blames the Yankee owner for both trends...
...provision would be removed from the tax law or substantially limited. A well-organized lobby, though, has mounted a campaign to keep the leasing tax break. One organization fighting for it is the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Last year the MTA sold 598 buses and ten commuter rail cars for more than $15 million to Metromedia. The MTA now leases the buses and cars from the communications conglomerate...
Leanin on the rail...
...King Jr. The state, Welcome said, had succeeded only in tarnishing the young man's reputation. She pleaded: "In this nation, you do not convict a person of murder or anything else by soiling him." In a final flourish, she placed a tiny thimble on the jury box rail. Said she disparagingly of the prosecution's presentation: "I leave this with you-a thimbleful of evidence, which is not enough for conviction...