Word: rails
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...there's big money in Medicare. Last year it weighed in at $162.5 billion and is expected to grow to $286 billion by the year 2000. However, previous attempts to tinker with the health insurance enjoyed by 36.3 million aging voters have earned Medicare the title of ``the third rail of American politics.'' Touch it and you're dead...
...Over the next nine months, the Amtrak rail-passenger network will phase in route and service reductions that will cut nationwide train service 21%. On Feb. 1 the daily Palmetto, which ran between New York City and Tampa via Washington and Charleston, was discontinued. The daily Crescent, operating between New York City and New Orleans via Washington and Atlanta, has reduced the Atlanta-New Orleans leg to three days a week. The Empire Builder will continue its daily schedule between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis, but the connecting service to Seattle and Portland is now available only four times...
...eyewitness accounts, it was Ferguson who one bloody evening two Decembers ago killed six fellow passengers and wounded 19 more with a semiautomatic pistol on the Long Island Rail Road's 5:33 train to Hicksville. The suspect's original attorneys, radical lawyers William Kunstler and Ronald Kuby, acknowledged as much when they offered up the controversial ``black rage defense,'' suggesting that an already unbalanced Ferguson had been pushed over the edge into murder by endemic American racism...
...soldiers entered the gate marked ARBEIT MACHT FREI and found some 7,000 starving, sick, pitiful survivors of Auschwitz. Young and gaunt then, aging and gray now, some of them returned last week to remember and to grieve. They walked, once again, down the street of death from the rail spur to the ramps where they saw the last of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. They shuddered before the gas chambers, peered into the wooden barracks, stood in silence amid the ruins of crematoria dynamited by the Nazis in a failed attempt to hide the evidence of the greatest crime. They...
...Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump.'' As the top official of the Paris region from 1961 to 1969, he did just that. With his vision of satellite towns around the capital, interconnecting highways, a suburban rail link to the city and a more efficient system of municipal boundaries, Delouvrier developed a Paris that is often cited as a model of modern planning...