Word: rails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...killed 191, and they had a warrant for his arrest as well as the arrests of five Moroccan accomplices. It wasn't immediately clear whether Fakhet was linked to the raid. The standoff occurred just a day after an inspector near Toledo spotted a 26-lb. bomb along a rail line and in a week when letter bombs went out to three Spanish media outlets...
...travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built and operates the Channel Tunnel, the rail link beneath the English Channel that was hailed upon its 1986 launch as Europe's largest privately funded infrastructure project. When the stock was introduced in 1987 at the equivalent of €5.33 per share, thousands of investors bought stakes in a transport monopoly serving two of Europe's largest economies...
...Kerry's candidacy will vary from diocese to diocese. You may not see many Catholic bishops appearing at Kerry photo ops this campaign season, and there's a possibility of some uncomfortable moments on the trail. "All you need is a picture of Kerry going up to the Communion rail and being denied, and you've got a story that'll last for weeks," says Father Thomas Reese, editor of the Jesuit magazine America...
...Parisian lawyer he rescued failing businesses. In 1988 he revived a bankrupt soccer team. And as mayor of Valenciennes from 1989 to 2002, he resurrected the moribund former steel town by revamping neighborhoods, attracting a Toyota factory, building a theater, and planning a regional tram whose first rail will be laid this week. Can this miracle worker save France's embattled conservative government after the party's rout in last month's regional elections? It was evidently with that hope in mind that President Jacques Chirac plucked Jean-Louis Borloo, who turns 53 this week, from a junior minister post...
...joins the list of cities--including Moscow, Paris and Tokyo--whose subways and trains have been turned into scenes of carnage. For transportation-security officials in Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia, there will be many sleepless nights ahead. In New York City, with more than 4 million rail and subway commuters daily, security has become an obsession. Although city officials have stepped up police patrols and introduced closed-circuit cameras in stations, they believe they cannot frisk rail commuters in the way that federal authorities screen air travelers...