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Harvard bids $75 million for 91 acres of land in Allston owned by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. The land is currently covered by railway tracks, and the turnpike bisects the parcel. The land would increase Harvard’s Allston holdings by about a third...
Stone pointed to the extensive negotiation process that led to Harvard’s protection agreements for the MTA and the MBTA, which shares the railway with freight carrier...
...Jews. By now, many of the them have moved further west where they continue to rankle against the Canadian government. As Brown depicts it, the Prime Minister takes advantage of Riel's return to deliberately provoke a rebellion in order to send in troops on the foundering Canadian-Pacific Railway. Declaring that God doesn't want the Métis to use guerrilla tactics, Riel disastrously waits for the soldiers who promptly end the Métis rebellion. The final issues recreate Riel's trial for treason where he must reluctantly submit to being defended on an insanity plea. Found...
...deal. Shares in Bombardier are stuck around $3, down from about $18. The good news for Bombardier Inc. is that it has a respected new chief executive in Tellier, 63, who arrived in January. A roll-up-your-sleeves manager, Tellier took over the moribund, government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. in 1992 and turned it into a lean and efficient publicly traded market leader. He did that by cutting costs (including 14,200 jobs) and eliminating real estate and telecom divisions to focus on rail. Tellier knows Bombardier, having served on its board for the past five years. Besides...
...looks like all parties came together. There’s a long-term assurance for the existence of the railway, the MBTA got what they wanted, and the city of Boston gets to keep jobs [of port and railway workers...