Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place may not only be dull; it puts great pressure on the spine. Shifting the weight from one foot to the other also helps relieve the strain of standing in place. At a bar do what experienced patrons have long done: always keep a foot on the rail or a rung of the bar stool...
...would answer. Sanjay had no need of office to gain his mother's ear at the breakfast-table sessions with advisers, where many of her key policies were argued out. Presumably, he played a part in her tough decisions to raise prices on petroleum, fertilizer and rail tickets, and to cut taxes as a way of reducing inflation (currently 20% a year) and stimulating growth...
...Kingston's grandfathers fetches up in the 1860s in the Sierra Nevada, seeking work with the Central Pacific Railroad. He is hired on the spot, Kingston notes acidly, because "chinamen had a natural talent for explosions." Years of backbreaking, dangerous work follow, the continent is finally linked by rail, and then the grandfather and his fellow Chinese find they are no longer welcome on the Gold Mountain...
...other Soviet leaders have called repeatedly for conservation, but there is not much fat to trim in the consumer sector. A nation that has only one automobile for every 42 people (the U.S. has one for every two people) and does most of its long-distance hauling by rail cannot cut back much on gasoline consumption. Some savings might be possible in factories, since Soviet industry is notoriously wasteful of energy, largely because the government sells energy to industries at low rates, which invites managers to squander it. But significant conservation may be impossible without economic decentralization, and that...
Genuine Risk was brilliantly ridden by her jockey, Jacinto Vasquez, who laid on the outside, far from traffic and the soft footing on the rail as the 13-horse field battled into the back stretch. With one-half mile to go, Vasquez made his move, gave the filly her head, and she swooped into the lead just as she reached the start of the home stretch. Running freely, fluidly, the big, lovely chestnut required just three taps of the whip to hold off Rumbo's late charge...