Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said to Dick, 'Look. Why don't you build a fence around the yards at night and put a dog in there to protect those cars? And that will stop the vandals.' And he said, 'No.' And I said, 'Why?' He said. The dogs might step on the third rail.' I said, 'Dogs generally don't step on third rails. But if they do you will replace them. However,' said I, 'if you are worried about that, then build two fences, and have the dogs run between the two fences.' He said, 'No.' I said, 'Why?' He said: 'Because somebody...
There is no solid evidence that Agca made such a journey, but he made a number of others on the way to his appointment in St. Peter's Square last week. He traveled to Rome at least three times before his most recent arrival and on one rail trip evidently brought in the Browning 9-mm used to shoot the Pope...
Goldsmith badly misjudged his market and competition. Because Britain is small and has excellent rail service, the leading London newspapers are distributed nationally. The Sunday editions (combined circ. 17.8 million) provide extensive national and international news, in-depth background reports and a wide range of reviews and entertainment stories. Also well entrenched are the Economist (U.K. circ. 69,000), TIME (British Isles and Ireland circ. 78,000) and Newsweek (circ. 40,000). Now! could not decide whether it was a feature or a newsmagazine. Its reporting never matched the newspapers', and its writing and analysis fell far short...
Efforts to rebuild the railroads should be buoyed by the deregulation law passed by Congress last year, which directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to give the railroads more freedom to raise their freight rates. Rail executives hope that they can make many branch lines profitable and restore their tracks and roadbeds. Otherwise, they argue, the lines should simply be abandoned...
From the Kremlin's point of view, there is still a strong case for intervention. A primary consideration is military. If Poland ever seemed likely to secede from the Warsaw Pact, cutting off Moscow's vital rail links and supply lines to East Germany, Soviet tanks could be expected to roll in immediately. Ideological factors could prove equally persuasive. Even before the outbreak of labor unrest last summer, Poland showed some dangerous deviations from Communist orthodoxy: a strong Catholic Church, private ownership of 75% of the country's farm land, a flourishing dissident movement. Then, the birth...