Word: rails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it wasn't such a bad deal after all. Last December, Los Angeles awarded Japan's Sumitomo Corp. a contract to build 41 cars for its light-rail system. A month later, the company was derailed from the $121 million contract when, in a fit of buy-American sentiment stirred in part by George Bush's visit to Japan, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission canceled the deal and said it would rewrite the specifications to attract a U.S. company. Last week the commission revealed the firm selected to build 15 of the new cars: Sumitomo Corp...
...along, humans will get their lift from space planes that take off and land like conventional jets but are powered by "scramjets" that, once aloft, will enable them to swoop into orbit or go halfway around the world in two hours. Cargo will be shot into orbit by electromagnetic rail guns that ramp up the sides of mountains, or will be flung upward by looping orbital tethers, sort of like David's slingshot...
Before the Bosnian war, Prijedor, a town of 30,000 six miles from Kozarac, was a busy industrial center. Now its rail yards are silent. The lumber mills, food-processing plants and iron mines have shut down. Schools will not open this fall. The Serbian militia provides almost the only employment...
...billion in federal spending, not counting the cost of Clinton's health-reform package. But that number is spread over four years, and it would go for potentially politically salable projects such as investing $80 billion to rebuild America's infrastructure or helping to finance bridges, roads, an intercity rail system and a nationwide information network...
...half a dozen owners with a fortune in excess of a billion dollars, Jack Kent Cooke probably has enough money now. Cooke owns the N.F.L. champion Washington Redskins, but like many a Joe Lunchpail, he wants to move to the suburbs. Move the Redskins, that is, to a rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed and Mark Hanna drooling, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder offered $130 million to construct roads and rail...