Word: rails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space shuttle, American industry still lives by the stodgier, workaday technology of the railroad. The proof: less than 24 hours after 235,000 railworkers went on strike last week against the nation's major freight rail companies, Congress, at the urging of President Bush, ordered the strikers back to work. Bush defended the action, saying that "the strike would cripple the economy and adversely affect national security." Some half million workers in the automobile and other rail-dependent industries faced layoffs within days of the aborted job action...
...seem rusty. On a first, unscheduled 4 1/ 2-hour jaunt, astronauts Jerry Ross and Jay Apt freed a balky antenna on an observatory satellite, permitting the $617 million device to be placed in orbit. The astronauts later tested sleds that haul large objects through space on a rail...
...Newscar swerved to avoid the insulation and smashed into and bounced off a Jersey barrier, spinning across three lanes of oncoming traffic and coming to rest against a wire guard rail in the breakdown lane...
Princeton's first-seed Hope McKay threw the victory into Fraiberg's face. Playing at 2-2 in matches and 14-13 game point for Harvard, Fraiberg just nabbed McKay's low rail to capture the game...
...outsiders seeking to help, the greatest challenge is not supply but distribution. The old centrally controlled system has crumbled, but no private market system has yet grown up in its place. An economic civil war rages between the republics and central state purchasing agents. The decrepit rail and road transportation system is grossly inefficient. In light of such fundamental weaknesses, critics of U.S. aid -- and some cynical Soviet citizens -- wonder if the relief will ever reach those who need it most...