Word: rails
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France's transportation nightmare moved toward an end as rail workers drifted back to their posts despite union calls to hold out. The three-week strike, led by transport workers, was in protest against proposed reforms to the French social-security system, and in particular a tightening of the retirement scheme of France's 5.5 million public-sector workers. Following concessions made by Prime Minister Alain Juppe on the retirement issue, many workers voted to end the labor action, which had never gained the active support of private-sector employees as hoped...
...Plains, it was the iron horse, snorting emissary of the unstoppable paleface invasion. Today the sooty beast is the stuff of nostalgia. This is a book of homage to those vanished symbols of expansion and industrial might. The evocative old images recall a time when belching smoke and slashing rail lines were signs of progress, not pollution...
...under the rubric of the U.N -- asking NATO to do the job. The North Atlantic Council, NATO's political arm, will then ask its Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, General George Joulwan, to begin the operation. Within days you will begin to see American troops moving from Germany by rail and roads through Hungary into Bosnia." Van Voorst reports that the Hungarian parliament yesterday approved the use of its bases for transportation centers for the operation and today the German parliament debates the question of contributing up to 4,000 troops to the operation. "This would be the biggest deployment...
...number of protests by millions of French public service workers who are angry at proposed job and benefit cutbacks. Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Polls show that about 54 percent of the French basically support the strikes. I guess they think that creating absolute havoc is justified. Air, rail and ground transport have ground to a halt. Schools, hospitals, post offices and sanitation are also shut down. Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public sector jobs is the only...
...French public service workers are staging a one-day strike, paralyzing a country that must face some tough fiscal decisions. Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Polls show that about 54 percent of the French basically support the strike. I guess they think that creating absolute havoc is justified. Air, rail, and ground transport have ground to a halt as a result of this strike. Schools, hospitals, post offices, and sanitation are also shut down. Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public...